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... of course the US was a Christian nation.
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To which I respond, so what?
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "Christian nation." If you mean that it was a nation whose inhabitants were mostly Christian at the time of its founding, maybe so (the Native Americans were not Christian back then, BTW (nor were the slaves fresh off the boats)).
If you're saying that the nation was founded as a quasi-theocracy, but that a few words in the First Amendment were massaged to hoodwink the less devout, I believe you're wrong. The First Amendment is what it is and IAW with the system prescribed under the rest of the constitution (i.e., judicial review), it can be very convincingly argued that we are today exactly where the founders wanted us to be with regard to religion.
If you feel so strongly about the need to codify Christianity as the nation's creed, do what you can to amend the constitution to reflect that belief. In the meantime, accept the first amendment as it is and as the constitutionally prescribed courts say it is. 'Nuf said.