Here's a Fresh Air interview with Kevin Kruse, who covers the marketing of the U.S. as a "Christian Nation." His book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America describes this in more detail. Sounds pretty fascinating to me.
After
the New Deal, corporate America argues / markets the notion that
capitalism and Christianity are soul mates, unified in a kind of
Christian libertarianism. Like "Christianity" (please ignore salvation
by grace), capitalism rewards people according to their merits. This is a
distortion of both kinds of religiosity, particularly removing any
reference to the dangers of wealth. The New Deal was seen as "pagan
statism."
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