You are correct on all points. I have reckoned that we live in the America that was founded and built on our Christian faith.
Have we become so godless and evil and lost collectively that we are no longer God’s chosen?
The reasons and values of America’s foundation are built on Christianity even if there was some debate about the Christian faith (as opposed to Deist) of the founders, the culture they were steeped in was strongly Christian.
I do think we have become a godless nation and I think that we are reaping the ‘rewards’ of that and that God is letting us wallow in our mire.
But we are NOT God’s chosen as a country, Christians (by adoption) and Jews (by covenant) are God’s chosen people, not this nation.
One of the saddest things to me is to see the secularism of the nation of Israel. I know several who lived over there and have read many other accounts of how there are many “Jews” (cultural not observant) who say things like “I don’t believe in God, but I believe in the nation of Israel”. They don’t see the connection.
The Old Testament in a nutshell....God blesses Israel, Israel gets stupid and follows after false gods, God withdraws His blessings, Israel is broken and repents and returns to God. Rinse and repeat.
While America is not God’s chosen people, I do think that God has blessed us infinitely in times past,possibly because in times past we were per capita a strongly Christian people, but like His chosen people (Israel)we have turned against Him and are following false gods. He is letting us find out the hard way so that we may be broken, repent and return to Him.
Just a side note, and kinda off topic, are you aware that Mormons teach that the Garden of Eden is in Missouri and is “Zion” (the New Jerusalem), that Mormons are “Israel” and Jews are ‘gentiles’ and that Christ will return and rule from Missouri and make the US Government an Mormon theocracy? They really do believe that America is God’s chosen people and that Jews have been abandoned by God.