The United States was founded by Christians. Its fundamental government structure is based on the Judeo-Christian idea of God from the book of Isaiah.
"The three branches of the U.S. Government: Judicial, Legislative, Executive"
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787 James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read (K.J.V.) Isaiah 33:22;
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”"
To ban Biblical references from the U.S. Government would in effect require the end of the constitutional system of three branches of Government. It may happen that some crass would be dictators would seek to do so.
Americans can however find rest in the Lord. God is infinite ion all things, and all things are a manifestation of His will. One may find rest in nature though the only way to salvation is through the soteriological works of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nature is being. In the existential ensemble of experience nature is the given. Human social thought and interaction seem more temporal. Returning to the One,, to the Creator of Being with nature is an eternal option.
God is the eternal uncreated Being. All things exist for God eternally and nature is an evolution of being and time aka being and nothingness for-itself. One can always find rest in the realization of the eternal amidst the temporal.
The Biblical book of Isaiah anticipated the presence of the Lord in mortal flesh too years before His birth.
Isaiah 53"Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lordhath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors."
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