WHAT IS THE CORE PROBLEM IN AMERICAN CULTURE

The first 100 universities in America were formed to study and think about what God had to say about subjects, and train young people to follow that path.

When Secularism came into the Universities starting in 1805 when Harvard became a Unitarian Universalists University, the purpose of Education changed form Studying what God said about things and applying it to Nature.
To Studying Nature alone.
They called this science, but it is really was a shift to Natural Philosophy'
This shift in ideas was a shift from one religion to another.