Holy Smoke: How Christianity Smothered the American Dream

A brief historial account of how Christianity became so embedded in American culture from the colonial era to day that most Americans are hardly aware of its ubiquity and socio-political influence. The nonfiction book examines how because the first decades of settlementin the New World brought mostly European Protestant Christians, their faith and cultural ways spread rapidly in the new country, and remained dominant into the 21st century. This historical reality has resulted in a society of unconscious Christian privilege and persistent efforts to embed the faith ever deeper into the nation's public square and governmental politics. The Constitution, however, as the Founding Fathers intended, prohibits faith's coercive influence on government. There is a rational way to right this ship of state, but it won't be politically easy.