Is America Becoming More Christian, American Secular Jews More Jewish?

Instapundit links a new Rasmussen poll revealing that “America is still a strongly Christian nation” and adds:

I wonder if it will become more, rather than less, that way? I was talking the other day to a fellow academic who said that he’s always been a near-agnostic Christmas-and-Easter kind of guy, but that lately, he’s feeling stirrings of actual Christianity in response to Boko Haram, etc. Could the pressures we’re seeing today convert unobservant cultural Christians into active believers?

A parallel phenomenon, I think, is that near- (or altogether-) agnostic American secular Jews are becoming more self-consciously Jewish in response to the increasing velocity and ferocity of progressive criticism of Israel. In my own case I know that 9/11 made me identify with Israel in a visceral way for the first time, and the “pivot” of Obama and his Democrats away from Israel has strengthened that identification and made Democratic foreign policy seem not only mistaken about American interests (I have long thought that) but an almost personal threat.

Apparently I’m not alone: “Cracks Appear in Democratic-Jewish Alliance Over Iran Deal, Netanyahu.”

Say What?