While our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, many people do not know that most of the 13 original states of our Union had a state religion at the time they adopted that clause. Wikipedia lists the following table
Colony Denomination Disestablished[note 1] Connecticut Congregational 1818[48] Georgia Church of England 1789[note 2] Maryland Church of England 1776 Massachusetts Protestant 1834 (parish church system)[note 3] New Brunswick Church of England New Hampshire Congregational 1790[note 4] Newfoundland Church of England North Carolina Church of England 1776[note 5] Nova Scotia Church of England 1850 Prince Edward Island Church of England South Carolina Church of England 1790 Canada West Church of England 1854 West Florida Church of England[note 6] 1783[note 7] East Florida Church of England[note 6] 1783[note 7] Virginia Church of England 1786[note 8] 3 states had no state religion. So what happened?
As can be seen, in most cases the Anglican Church was the state religion and after the revolution our founding fathers realized that was a problem. Because if the King of England was the "defender of the faith" of the Church of England, then allegiance to one's faith meant not pledging allegiance to America. So they decided there was a problem with Americans swearing allegiance to a "foreign" religion and the Anglican Church was abandoned quickly after the Constitution was adopted in 1781, with states repealing their allegiance in the 1783-1790 time frame. Most members of the Anglican church switched to adopting some other brand of Protestantism.
Massachusettes required people to go to a church, but left it up to local parishes to decide what denomination that would be - as long as it was not Catholic.
The Catholic Church was seen in much the same light as the Anglican Church. It was also viewed as a "foreign" religion, because the supreme leader of it, the Pope, resided in Rome, and Catholics must swear allegiance to the pope. This is one of the reasons the founders of our country were so fiercely anti-Catholic and drafted so many of the anti-Catholic laws that I mentioned at http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2015/jovial412-2.htm
It may very well have been for this reason when the I11uminati claimed it was "founded" in 1776, it declared itself a new organization and disavowed ties to the Bavarian group from which it sprang. They did not want to be seen as a "foreign" entity.
Now while Americans don't talk about these issues much in our modern days, the attitudes still remain. Americans have a strong independent streak and a "Don't tread on me" attitude and don't welcome foreigners coming over and telling us what to do today any more than back then. Perhaps this explains some of what I documented before on how the Catholic Church has been turned down for some very reasonable requests - just because they are popularized in a "pope" figurehead, and we don't like feeling subservant to foreigners. Not that such a sentement has ever stopped us from meddling in OTHER countries affairs in ways we'd HATE if they messed with us that way. But it is what it is.
I sometimes wonder how a False Messiah will rule over the USA from another country. While these attitudes may not exist within all Americans as strongly as they did in the 18th century, it is still pretty much there. It would take a heavy spiritual force to overcome these kind of attitudes.
Shalom,
Joe