Long before the Revolutionary period, the original colonies were primarily founded on religious freedom not available in Europe. Most early colonists came to the New World to escape religious persecution. You and your ilk want to bring persecution back.
Today, Christianity, as a broad religious category, is the largest religion in the world, with some 2.1 billion adherents. Yet Christianity is not a single, homogenous organized religion, but approximately 38,000 denominations. Which one, in your mind, is the right one to govern these United States? Hmmmm?
I was raised a Roman Catholic -- you know, the first, original version of Christianity. Yet some fundamentalist Protestants try to claim Roman Catholicism is a "cult." Laughable, considering that over half the Christians in the world -- about 1.2 billion -- are Catholics. The overwhelming majority, about 1.1 billion of them are Roman Catholics.
There are about 670 million Protestants in the world, with the so-called Modern Protestantism churches being the largest group (about 250 million). The various Baptist denominations combined are the next largest group (about 100 million), followed by Lutherans, Methodists, and Reformed churches (each about 75 million). The various Eastern Orthodox churches combined have about 274 million believers. Anglicans, Restorationism, Unitarians, and assorted others combined have about 120 million.
So again, which version of Christianity would you have govern these United States? Would you bother to protect the other versions, let alone non-Christian religions, agnostics and atheists?
Oh, and there is nothing dangerous about the United States Constitution to those who value freedom and each individual's God-given right to exercise that free will Christians insist we all have.
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge,
about to jump off. So I ran over and said, “Stop! don’t do it!”
“Why shouldn’t I?” he said.
I said, “Well, there’s so much to live for!”
He said, “Like what?”
I said, “Well...are you religious or atheist?”
He said, “Religious.”
I said, “Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?”
He said, “Christian.”
I said, “Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?”
He said, “Protestant.”
I said, “Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?”
He said, “Baptist!”
I said, “Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?”
He said, “Baptist Church of God!”
I said, “Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed
Baptist Church of God?”
He said, “Reformed Baptist Church of God!”
I said, “Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879,
or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?”
He said, “Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!”
I said, “Die, heretic scum”, and pushed him off.
Not trying to start something here, but the Roman Catholic church with its pope simply did not exist before the second or third century AD.
The original church was a group of Jewish believers who split from the false religion being taught be the Jewish authorities of that time to follow the true Messiah.
James Madison addressed this point. He attributed religious liberty in the United States not to any inherent qualities of Christianity, but to the multiplicity of sects.
Happily for the states, they enjoy the utmost freedom of religion. This freedom arises from that multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.
James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention 12 June 1788
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions49.html
>I was raised a Roman Catholic — you know, the first, original version of Christianity.
Just a nit to pick, but wouldn’t Messianic Judaism be the original version of Christianity? If not that, then the Church in Antioch where the believers were first named Christians?