Is America becoming a Xtian Republic?

Question

Much has been made about the muslim republics in the Middle East and the fact that so much of their lives are dictated by their faiths.
When you look around America right now, do you see the same thing happening, only substituting religons? Has XTiananity become the religous standard around which Americans rally?
If you do think so, how comfortable are you with that fact?
If you don't see it, what role do you see religon playing currently in America?
And regardless of your thoughts on this question, what role (increasing? decreasing?) do you see religion playing in our future?
(FYI - I'm not for or against any religion or belief system. I'm just wondering...)

Answer 1

Our religion is not called "Xtianity". It is called "Christianity". To substitute His name by essentially crossing it out with an X is not so nice. Actually, I don't think that very many Americans are true Christians (those who really try to live in a Christ-like way); perhaps they have a vague remembrance of going to church when they were children, and so they refer to themselves as "Lutheran" or "Methodist" or what-have-you. I think that most Americans (and people throughout the world) are apathetic towards Christ. It's called apostasy; and here is what wikipedia says about it:
Apostasy is a term generally employed to describe the formal renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used by sociologists without the sometimes pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to one's former religion. One who commits apostasy is an apostate, or one who apostatises. In older Western literature, the term typically referred to baptized Christians who left their faith. Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates and they generally consider this term to be a pejorative. One of the possible reasons for this renunciation is loss of faith, another is the alleged failure of religious indoctrination and/or brainwashing.

Conversely, in the future there will be Christians everywhere who will grow more deeply in their faith; they will more fervently devote themselves to doing God's will. It's "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer", except with faith instead of money.