I am living in my own world. The world of blue ponies and yellow teddy bears. In my world, I am the king, and we have no separation between reality and religion.
An interesting confession. No argument here.
America must function. The non-religious way is collective suicide sooner or later.
Religion (Christianity) has been very damaging to America. It's alliance with the Republican party has done considerable damage to Americanism, and has resulted in the partial realization of the Republican agenda for Americans, starting back with the rise of the so-called Moral Majority and its cynical family values meme, and manifesting presently as an assault on multiple bedrock American principles.
Religion is also the source of most anti-scientism and anti-intellectualism in the States, which has manifested outside of religion as toxic faith (election hoax, climate denial, vaccine hesitancy, uncritical acceptance of the widespread disinformation through social media)
The non-religious way to which you referred is what led to the rise of Enlightenment values and humanism, and with it, the modern liberal, secular, democratic state with its guaranteed personal freedoms such as freedom of religion. The religious way is to impose one's religious values on the entire population whether they like it or not, which is the antithesis of democracy and church-state separation, making this religion in permanent opposition to the core American values that have sustained the nation until now, and which it threatens to erode further.
The parts of the western world where, according to surveys, the people are most content and least dysfunctional, are the most atheistic social democracies such as in Canada and western Europe. Look at the chaos and division it's presently causing in the States.