The Founding Fathers and The Role of Religion in Shaping the USA

I read an article today by Thomas Kidd of The Free Lance-Star that sought to accurately portray the religious aspect in the founding of the United States. Overall the article was well-researched and well-written. (Having done my own exhaustive research on the subject, I knew that Mr. Kidd was coming from a place of fact; not history that has been distorted and rewritten.) My only objection was the neat little wrap-up of the article...it just seemed like the author ran out of steam so he ended the article. Anyway, the following is my written response to the article...

"Up until the 1860's history books included the religious aspect of the founding of the US. Religion was a common, publicly accepted attitude and was, in one form or another, a prevalent way of life in post-colonial American society.


It was the rise of secularism that caused history to be rewritten, and of historians who would distort the truth to suit their personal interpretation of events that became the real catalysts for the exclusion of religious reference amongst the Founding Fathers.

Today's secularists would have you believe that the supposed "Separation of Church and State" is an actual Constitutional emplacement in law; when in fact, the Jefferson letter only coined the phrase as a matter of clarification. Nowhere in the Constitution are the words "Separation of Church and State." They don't exist! Supreme Court rulings of the late 1800's and early 1900's popularized the phrase amongst those seeking to further rewrite history to a more convenient, secularist interpretation, and to instill their selfish individual views upon the populace as a whole.

Anyone wanting to learn the REAL history of the US has only to do their own research and to not rely on history that has been rewritten."
 
I have not yet received any rebuttal from my response; though I'm certain secularists or atheistic respondents will attack me and the truth of what was stated [in the article or in my response] simply because they don't want history to be the truth; but to be as they envision it as a matter of convenience in order to justify their position.