Theses 4-10: Yep, not much there. The Founding Fathers weren't interested in setting up a theocracy, was there someone who thought that they were? Certainly they based their setup on the assumption of a loosely Christian worldview.
11-12, same.
13: New religion? Liberty is a religion? If so, I don't think the founding fathers created it. Created a space? Possibly. Certainly I don't think representative democracy is good spiritual practice for living under the perfect Monarchy - but imperfect monarchy has its own problems. (Although the way my "representatives" represent me, I might take Her Majesty over Barbara Boxer - she seems very sensible).
14-15: American Civil Religion/Personal Liberty: I'd agree that this is a "idol" to some, but I don't think of it as particularly a religion, more as something that we're tempted into. Pride always says "I can do it best" and, quite frankly, it always has. As for it being around the turn of the century, I'd argue that that was our most publicly Christian time as a nation, so the timing there feels odd to me. If anything, I think that the religion that they're naming came more into being in the post-WWII era rather than in 1900.
That should start us chewing, and anyway 16 looks like it has some good discussion value.
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