If people were truthful they would admit that the founding fathers were educated man and only a few of them were even mildly religious even though the everyday man in the street was afraid of religion.
They tried to set up a Utopia where everyone was free to do what they wanted regardless of anyone else and free to live life as they pleased, a winner takes all society where people step over others to get to the top.
Religion came to the front because of that and made everyone pay, it was a type of Mafia long before the Sicilians ever set foot on American soil because religion was doing it long before the Mafia was though of.
The Mafia was born out of religion, the idea was simple...... You don't have to believe (pay) but you know what will happen if you don't, the choice is yours, either believe (pay) or suffer the consequences but please remember, no one is forcing you to believe (pay) the choice must always be yours.
America has turned out to be the exact opposite to what the founding fathers intended it to be, religion and greed has eaten away at the very heart of the society, if ever there was a case for 'anarchy' America is the case, the only thing that will save American society is to destroy it and start again, religion and greed are too deeply ingrained in the American psyche to change the way of thinking, every time something good is proposed Americans ask 'what's in it for me' and the idea dies.