The project of Americanism is heretical. It had its birth in the transference of the ability to confer salvation from a religious body, Christ’s Church, to a political body, the United States. This spiritual disease was initially limited to the New England colonies, but it gradually spread elsewhere, eventually infecting all the colonies/States as a result of various events: the Great Awakening, the French and Indian War, the War for Independence from Great Britain, the War between the States, WWII, etc.

Because the political body of the US has replaced the Church, we must not expect to find saints in the usual Christian sense of that word – holy men and women and children who are overflowing with God’s Grace. Instead, the ‘saints’ of the US will be those who either exemplify the worldly, post-Christian, American ideals of liberty and success or who sacrificed in some way to uphold the salvific political system of the States (or both).

https://orthodoxreflections.com/a-false-martyr-and-a-true-martyr/