Christianity is currently a hot-button topic. The hue and cry about attacks on innocent Christians and a general, all-out-war on Christianity in this country have reached astronomical proportions. Some Christians are outraged at the encroachment of other religions not based on Jesus Christ and these good Christians bemoan the fact that this country is no longer on the path of being a good, Christian nation.
(Just a little historical fact to interject here -- the US was not founded by today's modern sects of Christianity. The first Europeans who landed in the present-day US were from a reactionary sect called the Puritans -- and many of today's modern American Christians would not be accepted as "good Christians" by these Puritans. It should be further noted that those parts of the US where the Spanish and the French were first most prominent have deep roots in Catholicism -- which some Protestants still have a hard time acknowledging as being a Christian religion . . . and a goodly number of our country's Founding Fathers were not Christians, but deists and they did not put any emphasis on Christianity or religion of any kind into our founding documents . . . but those are topics for another time . . .)
Back to topic: Today's America is not the purely Christian nation that it never was. Before the Europeans landed here, there were a myriad of religions and spiritual practices that were not even closely related to the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Most were polytheistic, earth-based and fairly well-balanced between the idea of male and female energies. Most of the peoples in the Americas were also deeply tied to their cultures which instilled the ideals that Christ tried to teach to his followers. He preached against the dominant cultural norms of his place and time that led, ultimately, to his death. He preached about a new world order that was not strictly hierarchical, not based on money and banking institutions and generally the complete opposite of the societal structures that had evolved in what is now the Middle East (I refer to this region as Central Asia) and Europe.