What is the Hope for a Less Religious Future in the U.S.

We don't often enough see what it is that can be accomplished in the U.S. to make our lives better. If religion and its many political arms are slipping what are the changes we as a country might accomplish.

It's clear from the recent election the Republican Party and conservative Christianity are peas in a pod. Conservative Christianity was more religion in government and smaller government. The Republican Party has lots of Christian version of sin in its platform. Other ideas from Christianity it opposes. It's plausible the decline in Christianity will eventually take a toll in the popularity of the Republican Party.

To the average citizen this would mean at least a few important things. One would be expansion of medical care for people at all income levels. There is no doubt preventive medical care lowers medical costs. Neither is there doubt medicine costs would decline. 

Hopefully, with public subsidized or free medical care abortions would be more available and affordable. Less might be spent on end of life care which now is incredible and mostly futile.  

Public education would be more widely available to all incomes. What is called public education has become increasingly private with fees for many parts of it.

Some solution for the high cost of housing would be sought--I can only hope there is a solution out there. With fewer Christian Republicans no effort is being made to solve its high cost.

In economics there is an assumption embraced in the Democratic Party but not by Republicans. It goes by the big words, "Diminishing Marginal Utility of Income." The idea is simple. The more money (or wealth) people have the less satisfaction they get from more. From this assumption flows the idea that taxing away the top portion of income of wealthy people and spending the money of very low income people increases the total satisfaction (utility) of some given amount of money. 

While this idea remains mostly in theory and not in demonstrated form it is embraced in many quarters as wise policy. The Bible's character, Jesus, talked often about the rich giving their wealth to the poor. It has been considered wise policy for at least 2,000 years. 

It's ironic that to have ideas from the Bible put into secular government it might require fewer Christians. Fewer Christians would make life better for the majority of people.