But it was not atheists, secularists pagan, Muslims, Roman Catholics non fundies, et al, by and large, who made the nation free and prosperous. It has been immigrants form these nations who came for the freedom, refuge and good life to the land of Biblical minded majority citizenry.
Fundamental attribution error.
The United States is not prosperous because of a "Biblical minded majority citizenry."
I'd question whether the US could even be considered to be
prosperous at all right now.
But historically, the prosperity of the US has had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Biblical-
anything. The US hit it's prosperity stride in the decades after WW2...during which it just so happened that the infrastructure of every other economic power had been devastated by war, while the US (which did sacrifice blood and treasure, but did not have battles fought on its own shores with the lone exception of Pearl Harbor) retained its entire economic machinery. Go figure, then, that the US was able to rise as the economic superpower, overpowering even the USSR (meaning the equal presence of "the Bomb" did nothing).
You're attributing success and prosperity to a factor that has been present in multiple other cultures without resulting in similar prosperity, and completely ignoring the real factors that allowed for the US to dominate late-20th-century economics.
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers