God does not live in the White House. I think we need a New Deal.

I like football as much as the next fan, but the NFL marries corporate America, the military, and Christianity into a new form of anti-pagan nation-worship heretofore unseen.
The national anthem doesn't replace the Lord's Prayer as much as stand in for it. Let's all bow down to our "heroes."
I find it revolting.

Religion's business model requires creating fiercly brand-loyal customers. If corporate america could get away with attach their products to a religion they would.

"Everybody knows the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over, everybody knows the good guys lost...." --L. Cohen

That and the Red Scare, for which the Gov embraced Christianity because the Soviets did not embrace religion. So it wound up on the money, replacing the pledge, and in statuary all over the land.

I'm reading this book right now

Yes, I would address it as the wealthy and their corporations invented Christian America along with their family values methodologies.

They have used religion and government to suppress individuals, women, and any form of groups or organizations whose only crime was waning collective bargining for liveable reasonable standards of living!!!

This has been a Obstructionist republican slow moving orchestrated coup D'tat since the New Deal, before that, it was Teddy Roosevelt and his Antitrust laws and regulations that the Fascist republican have demonolished along with the conservative Members of the Democratic Party!!!

Al the major industrialist and the vast majority of the wealthy supported fascism, then used fascism to increase their wealth and power by supplying and supporting communism then by corrupting by fighting it profiting from both ends and sides!!!

Marx warned about this long ago, that religion was a tool used by capitalists to divide the masses.