Well. Well, well, well... I am simply not sure where to stand. It is odd to see a position that commands quite a lot of respect and admiration be occupied by an overgrown toddler. I am just not sure what to think. He was chosen. It is impossible to not understand and respect why for. He is what an awful lot of people want, he is the man chosen to lead the United States. And yet, judging on his speech and his behaviour, he is an equivolent to an unusually assertive 4-year-old. It's... Good God. He just seems unworthy for the office, is all. But I cannot tell where my (pitiful sample of) logic ends and where my prejudice begins. Well. We shall see.
His first presidential temper tantrum will be the first test. For all of us.
The redeeming quality of American Protestantism and the top is that things are still pretty fragmented as far as religion goes. We don't really have one state owned church so much as many, many flavors of Christianity, sprinkled with other religions on top.
Part of the reason is that a lot of odd ducks, religion-wise, settled in America to practice their own original (do not steal) interpretation of Christianity in peace. It is... Odd. It is rather like how the United States did not have a rigid system of nobility, clergy, gentry and peasantry, and yet there is a huge, wide class chasm today.
With that said, though, secularism and equality are two things that does make America (or rather, the idea of America) such a great place, and such an ambition. It is just that having a grand idea and maintaining it has proven to be rather difficult.