Oh, okay.

I very much would call the present-day US a religious society! So either “religion” does not mean the same thing to us, or our impressions of present-day US society differ.

I definitely see what you are talking about with the nation itself becoming a deity, though. And we certainly have that going on, to some extent merged with the de facto state religion of Christianity and to some extent coexisting with it.

Are you an American? I am, and I live in Kansas. This — as opposed to if I lived in, say, New York or LA — is probably why I think the US is a religious society.