I think the common mindset in our country is one that's deistic and nominally Christian. It's a cultural mindset, one that is still accepting of things like Christmas and Easter, promoting a nominal Christianity (mostly in name only), and one that may be cynical of the Church and its form and ritual and certain traditional values. They are deistic in that they loosely hold some commonly held beliefs with several religions, such as there is an intelligence ("God") who will judge us on the basis of our relative goodness, after death, but they are generally disinterested in and ignorant of the Bible. They are "Christian" in that they identify more with it culturally (singing Christmas songs about Jesus and his birth) than with Judaism or Islam or Hinduism, and they may believe in a Jesus who went about doing good, believing if they are relatively good, as Jesus was, in their character and conduct, they will be ultimately approved by God.
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