That is indeed a very accurate statement.

My problem with the American ideal, however, is that it is simply that. An ideal - a Utopian (and therefore mythological) ideal. This notion that America has somehow fallen from grace and once stood for something is only partially true. I believe that the founders of the U.S. would be rolling in their graves if they knew what their country has evolved into today. Yet for all their alleged ideals, all the famed quotes of historical politicians (many of which, as quotes and separated from the person saying them, I'm quite fond of), America has always stood overwhelmingly for evil. It is a nation begot with blood and currently upheld with blood - and blood aplenty in between then and now. There is no less sadism in America's earlier years than there is today; far from it. And anyone stating that America has somehow lost its superior status because it is no longer a Christian nation has just proved their intolerance for other religions.

Anyone who longs for a government where their faith (where any faith) is the foundation of its legal system is a self-confessed bigot. The desire to create a legal system based upon one's religion is supremacy at its finest, for it suggests of its own volition that their faith takes greater precedence over all others. It is so frightening a thought that I categorize such practices alongside racial segregation, forced migration and general tyranny.