More Thoughts on the Concept of Virtue and the States Role in Promoting It

I'm back. Sorry.
So the dominating virtue of American society is not work ethic, but independence. If we can have independence without working for it we will take it. Our government is on the the way to providing this for us. However, as our entitlements increase so does our dependence on the providers, so in effect we are becoming less dependent. We're being dooped. They are using our virtue against us. Conservatives in this country recognize this and are disturbed by this because they understand the scheme, and see how its undermining the real American Dream, which is of course the age old tale of "rags to riches", which no longer necessarily requires a strong work ethic. The fear in secular terms is legitimate.
But how does the Christian faith fit into all of this? Some would argue that our heritage is Christian, that it is the hand and the American Constitution, as well as our overall heritage is the perfectly sized glove. Of course, for Protestants (which I am) this would require some inductive Bible Study. The pertinent question is: Does the Bible agree with the Constitution or with what our Father's declared? If it does not, are we not required to disagree with the Constitution, or the assertion that our heritage is Christian if it does not also agree with the Bible? Just because our conservative pastors, and FOX News political pundits tell us that we are a Christian nation doesn't mean that we are. We're a Christian nation in as much as we're biblically based as an entire nation, not in part, but in whole.

Let me supply several reasons why the United States of America is not a Christian nation, and never was, and then we'll pick up the discussion again at a different time.

1) Given 1 Peter 2, and Romans 13, and the overall mood of the Bible towards government, which is: complete submission unless it means denying Christ. What were we fighting for, and killing people for in the American Revolution? Is the sermon on the mount worth setting aside in our fight for "certain inalienable rights"? was the Gospel at stake in the American Revolution, or was it independence from Great Britain? Even if the Gospel were at stake, is it Christ-like to kill people in its defense? Should we even be a nation at all?

2) The whole flow of the New Testament suggests that the Christian community is a representative of the Kingdom of God, not any kingdom of man and it is therefore questionable that there is any such thing as a "Christian Nation", unless of course that nation is perfect, is the kingdom of God, which of course America, even its ideal form is not.

3) The early Fathers, drawers of the constitution, highly favored freedom of religion, and were of various persuasions themselves. The forefather crew, if you will, ranged in beliefs from atheism to deism, to true-blue Protestant. Unless we can somehow fit atheism, which denies the existence of God, and deism, which denies the deity of Christ, into the the category of Christianity, we cannot say that this is a Christian Nation, unless we try to argue that it's Christian in mood, which becomes so ethereal that an argument for a return to our "Christian" days would be too vague to be substantial.

I could be wrong. I welcome your input, perspectives, questions, and beliefs. My thesis is very nuanced, and inconclusive, so please be patient and wary of quickly jumping categories. I will praise America, when I think America deserves it, but I think people must understand that fighting for the Gospel is primary, time consuming, and different from fighting for all politically conservative values. To be a Christian is de facto, distinct from being American, not mutually exclusive, but different.

I'm not done. I'm just slowing down for responses.