Yes, the US is secular, but let's not credit Christians with that. The Christian right doesn't like it. As we speak, they are working to change the system.
Strongly Christian influenced governments have seen dark days too. It's a question of moderation. The US was formed as a secular state to prevent religion from usurping the power of government, because they knew from history how ugly that could be. Rome, Spain, modern day Islamic governments, and colonial America, are examples of failed theocracy.
What I gather from you is that South Africa is both Christian and socialistic. How is that working out for you?
I do not know what Rome, Spain, Modern day Islamic governments and Colonial America has to do with the Western civilization as we know it.
If it is an attempt to prove to me that a Christian government is bad for a country, you are excessively exaggerating on how the roman Catholic empire, Spanish Inquisition, Islamic terrorism, Quakers, and other religions were accountable for religious oppression on the masses.
Lets see, the Roman catholic empires, Western and Eastern, are not a great example of Christian morals, but of corrupt popes who misused the Bible for their excesses.
Spain and the inquisition was definitely also a corrupt organisation where the Church and Government persecuted and killed for power and fortune. Not Biblical at all!
Colonial America, well, If you use the few bad examples of people who used the Church to kill for money, we are again at a witch hunt lynching where gross corrupt men killed to get rich.
Not very nice examples of "Christianity at all"! I agree.
However, I do not want a country to be a Christian or Islamic one, I want a democratic one free of Socialism, because we saw in the 20th century how many people died under Communism and socialism.
Give me a country where the people are Christian, and they elect their government on the foundations of Biblical morals.
Prohibit religious governments, but allow prayer in Parliament!
Allow free choice, but stop abortions.
Allow gay and lesbianism, but prohibit gay marriages.
Be strict on crime, but prohibit despotism.
Teach Evolution, but do so with ID too.
Allow freedom of speech, but stop slander.
Fight Racism, but allow pride in who you are as a skin color.
Oh, and never allow Islam to force their religion in such a country.
Islam is not a religion, but a treasonous ideology to destroy a free society.
Prohibit Islam, Mosques, Halaal food production, Sharia law, the Burka and hajib, and any speakers calling Muslims to prayer.