Though I may disagree with you at a personal level, Amos (and I do) there is some strong linkage. It wasn't a bunch of atheistic humanists that sat around and suddenly came up with the US Credo. The roots and rhizomes trace back through human history with great emphasis on English Protestantism, the English revolution, Congregationalism as well as many other factors such as they teach in public school (or did when I was a kid). In a way it was a perfect storm. You might almost say Providential, Well, YOU wouldn't but I might!