Yes, Americans are a religious people and they are very Anglo-Saxon or moderate in cultural and political temperament. Therefore they can practice separation of church and state in government and culture as it now a legal tradition however unconstitutional it is.
Levin has convinced me that separation of church and state never existed in the Constitution as the Founders wanted the citizens to be educated, religious and virtuous so that they could handle the freedom granted them as citizens of this republic, without lawlessness, license and immorality rising out of so much freedom, justifying or making necessary the arrival on the political scene of a strong man to crush liberty in order to restore order.
Therefore, a religious citizenry, that places the highest open, agreed-upon practice by every citizen and every elected official of religious liberty of conscience, peaceful coexistence, moderate coexistence and strong tolerance of other citizens religious beliefs, their rival beliefs, their atheism or their indifference to the religious concern, is an America that can have religion in the public arena without separating state from religion, without descending into theocracy or some other kind of national religious tyranny enjoyed by the majority but foisted off on a reluctant minority.
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