Most forms of governing are abhorrent. The necessity for control over man by a central power is an aberration of man. Furthermore, overshooting to a theocracy that would exile non-believers was more of a knee-jerk response to someone who just wants to stir up trouble instead of offering actual talking points.
Many countries require religion as part of the school curriculum. Italy, Latvia, Germany, Japan, Finland, and Austria to name some. Unfortunately just about every majority Christian country has abolished Christianity in favor of secularism, and it's played out horribly for countries that haven't adopted policy to reflect it. Austrians are taught Islam and Christianity side-by-side in school. Islam is entering the curriculum (to some resistance) in France and Germany. Secularism doesn't help these countries, it perverts the message for all parties and generates division. True secularism as in America has created the hell we live in now.
Let's also recognize that
the land of the free was not up for grabs by just anyone in the world in the late 18th century. From 1790 to 1870 the
1790 Naturalization Act only allowed whites of good moral character. Arabs and Islamic extremists couldn't exactly fly a plane into Massachusetts. The US census doesn't have data on religion but it does have data on race. From 1790 to 1940, the percentage of white people in America increased overall to a high of 89.8%. We can assume that the remaining 11.2% are mostly black and Hispanic. Most natives have been killed or pushed out of mainstream society, Hispanics from Mexico, and blacks from the slave trade. Most of this entire group will be practising some form or Christianity with a sizeable minority of Jews, or will have been raised with those values. Secularism doesn't hurt here. It's a relatively homogeneous population all practising the same overall values and traditions. Jews homogenized themselves in different regions, like Haredi (orthodox) Jews almost entirely being within the Northeast or the Amish being concentrated in the Midwest.
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Then in the 1950s something begins to change. Finally in 1952, the Immigration Act is changed to stop barring Asians from coming to America. In 1965 the American Naturalization Act (Hart-Celler Act)is changed and no longer has determinations or quotas based on where you're from or what you look like and it's designed to attract foreign skilled labour. From this point on, immigration keeps opening up more and more and more up until where we are now.
If we're talking about proper American heritage passed down from our forefathers, you need to enter the argument with a few perspective changes in mind. Firstly, everyone that was invited to America was a white denominational Christian from Europe. Second, regardless of their takes and opinions on Deism and Rationality, I've already shown in other posts that even though federal documentation was secular, society at large was
not, as evidenced by the God-fearing language in nearly every state's constitution. The US was designed so that each state could create their own regulations and be their own 'country' in a way, and so non-secular language in the federal documentation would force everyone to recognize a single form or denomination of faith, defeating one of the purposes of having freedom of religion in federal documentation. We've already destroyed proper American heritage. Some parts for the better, some parts not so much. If Islam had been seeping into European education systems back then as it is now, do you think they'd be so quick to allow freedom of religion?
