The thread certainly is a barn door of a target for anti-USAism - paranoid freaks placating guilt does come to mind.
Didn't the first settlers take land from natives (the non-godfearing) and then build a fort to protect themselves from those 'evil people' ?
And fearing God is seen as a good thing - even having a term for it - "godfearing' = 'good' - and r eligions like jwism are just a normal standard deviation from the mean.
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That being said - I think that much amazing cultural thought comes out of the USA, but there is a large population of the cognitively dissonant.