Secular

I recently heard a statement in a post election discussion from one of the liberal elites who raised my hackles and prompts this rebuttal.
The speaker was Carl Bernstein, once of the Washington Post and a principal in the “Deep Throat” bit that helped bring down President Richard Nixon. Quoth Bernstein, among other hogwash: “This is a secular nation.” He was referring, of course, to the United States of America.
Secularism is the disbelief of any higher power in human relations whether it be God, Allah, Buddha, Manitou (of the American Indians) or even the gods of the Greeks and Romans. Humans for eons have relied on a spirituality to provide faith and hope and a blueprint for communal living.
Mr. Bernstein, sir, you may have been referring to our government for which the founding fathers invoked a separation of church and state in the constitution. However those great men, as spiritualists, were even more significantly relying on their God for success in a magnificent experiment.
Nation and government are not synonymous, the latter being only one component of the former. Factor in the people, the history, the traditions, the culture, even the morals and values espoused and you’ll find a nation, Mr. Bernstein. My country, most certainly, is not secular.
Interesting that a concensus that the “November Surprise” for the Democrats was triggered because the populous was influenced primarily by morals and values.
So there, Mr. Bernstein!