People say, "You don't want to be too religious, because then we end up with a theocracy like something out of the Dark Ages. But on the other hand, you don't want to be too irreligious, because that's the path to a corrupt, immoral society like what we have now. You want to be a deist, like the founding fathers of this country."
Well, how is that different than the chicks we see who are "spiritual but not religious" and just use their religion for feel-good purposes, rather than any kind of moral compass? It seems like the deism of the founding fathers allowed them to make up a bunch of stuff, e.g. that "all men are created equal," since to them it was supposedly self-evident.