@JPB,
I think you may want to take some remedial courses on American History...and use history books that actually objectively report history and haven't been purposefully and zealously 'updated' to omit key fundamental things. The absence of these 'things' during your education on American History would lend to the only plausible scenario which might allow you to support your line of reasoning here ...and do so with a clear conscience. If you take the time to compare what older history books say to what the liberal driven publishers pass off today as an objective account of history (or of biology too, for that matter) I think you'll be baffled as to what gave people the right and audacity to rewrite our country's history - omitting things at will so as to make it comfortably fit their current liberal ideologies and agendas.
We left England to escape what was essentially a tyrannical theocracy and came up with a brilliant balanced system of government designed among other things specifically to avoid having a theocracy. The verbiage of this, as well as a letter from Thos. Jefferson (to some concerned influential folks in Danbury, CT), is continually being twisted into what is now routinely called 'the separation of Church and State' (but is not found in any such context -as groups such as the ACLU would have you believe is stated as such - in our Constitution).
That being said, there is not some undermining 'movement' by Christians to 'impose' anything on America. What you see happening - if one takes in a broader, more objective slice of history than what network television and entities like the History Channel have to offer- is a reclamation of what was once not only accepted, embraced, admired and normal but more importantly ARE and always have been the foundational concepts that our country was built upon.
Christianity's influence was not only noticed and applauded back in our country's early days -when Alexis de Tocqueville visited in 1831 and was so impressed with what he saw that he went home and wrote * Democracy in America*. Concerning religion in America, he said "On my arrival in the U.S. the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things" He described the situation this way- "Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must be regarded as the 1st of their political institutions;.... I do not know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can know a man's heart? - but I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to a whole nation and to every rank of society"
He also wrote about what he saw in our schools. In what is now a liberal 'mutual-admiration' society - New England - de Tocqueville observed this: In New England every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge; he is taught, moreover, the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of the Constitution. In the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all of these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon."
Does that sound to you like a rare situation being reported on with bias?
This might seem like extreme conjecture to you if your opening comment is is an accurate assessment of your view of the role of Christianity in American history and governance but that was a 'only' a foreigner's opinion from 1831, after all. (You really should look up Mr. de Tocqueville and see for yourself if his opinions were taken lightly world-wide) This may be equally as hard to swallow but it was not so long ago when Christianity's positive influence on society was much highly applauded. In 1952, a strong civil libertarian - U.S. Supreme Court Justice presided over the Zorach v. Clauson case. He stated 'We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being (notice the capital letters) ...When the state encourages religious instruction or cooperates with religious authorities...it follows the best of our traditions. For it then respects the religious nature or our people and accommodates the public service to their spiritual needs.
There was no 'rampant theocratic drive for political control' on anyone's part - unless you add the secular humanist/atheist movement to your potential list of culprits. They really kicked into gear - apart from linking arms with Darwinists and Margaret Sanger and the ACLU (the Anti-Christian Lawyers Union) - about a decade after Justice Douglas reaffirmed the overall deep-rooted Christian heritage and belief of the American people. They rampantly (sound familiar?), methodically, and diabolically went about dismantling and perverting our nation through key court cases while banking on the relative apathy of an unsuspecting, overly-trustful American heartland. The astonishing reversal by the Supreme Court in 1962's Engel v. Vitale and 1963's Abington v. Shempp declared that prayer and Bible reading in public schools were to be outlawed...opening Pandora's box. In case after case, liberal justices - fueled by social pressures from very vocal yet very small minorities - repeatedly made rulings against the traditional values of our country. This erosion culminated in 1973's Roe v. Wade....constitutionally protecting those choosing to kill humans at the earliest stages of life. This was followed by a sickening case by case erosion of our country's moral foundations.
Now I'm going to do my best to not club you with the idiocy of self-contradicting sentence you've led off your second paragraph with because that wouldn't be nice. Besides, despite the continuing struggles you have with sentence structure as you continue, you do bring out a valid point about how faith-based organizations are on the ball when it comes to helping people in need...though I've yet to see any atheist organizations (atheism is a religion too) be first or last (or anywhere in-between) on the scene in a disaster relief situation.
In closing, I just want to say that you , my friend , have it backwards entirely. This is a nation being steamrolled by liberal 'heavy-equipment' and subversion tactics and Christians are merely fighting back. There's plenty of us that screw up all the time and don't live like a person who doesn't understand the nature of sin and the Bible itself thinks we should live but that doesn't detract from what this country was founded upon - Christian principles. If you want to base your opinions on a few anomalies like pedophile priests and homosexual pastors, that's your prerogative and your right..but it doesn't make it right. Do your homework. Start by reading the Constitution.
God Bless