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Dharmapala
All major documents the USA is founded on (DoI and the Const.) make reference to a deity
The Paris treaty that ended the revolution makes reference to the Holy Trinity
The Predominate Religion for all of America's post-colonial history has been Christianity, and during the Great Awakenings Evangelicals felt it their job to reform society
America was noted as one of the most Christian nations by other nations of the world
The Puritians who first came over sought to make America a city on a hill
and on top of that Secularism was an idea developed by Protestants in repose to the abuses of the Catholic church
The "god" language in the Declaration is decidedly deistic. Deism was just as common as Christianity to the founding fathers. Secularism was an outflow of the enlightenment, which sought to move away from the then common Christian societies of Europe.