tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post7863383368080935981..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: The bonds of unity in the young American republicHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-64098880015389819512015-08-07T17:53:03.437-04:002015-08-07T17:53:03.437-04:00You may find this review of Kevin Schultz' &qu...You may find this review of Kevin Schultz' "Tri-Faith America" of value. I disagree with Ed Blum's conclusion that this all necessarily leads to his social gospel left-liberalism, but the tale of how Protestant America became a "Judeo-Christian" one [at least for a little while] is of historical interest.<br /><br />http://religiondispatches.org/judeo-christian-america-the-fall-of-the-christian-nation/Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-50263925801991562782015-08-05T01:19:29.159-04:002015-08-05T01:19:29.159-04:00Ha! Correct. The genetic Protestantism of the Fo...Ha! Correct. The genetic Protestantism of the Founding (which included unitarians and deists as well), eventually gave way to the Catholic-Protestant-Jewish troika in the 20th century. Now, the elites seem to have decided on simply referring to American religious pluralism, rather than identifying specific traditions. At the time of the Founding, things were much clearer. Americans were united by a basic faith -- America was founded as a Protestant country, albeit a tolerant one, with room for Catholics and Jews and others (and improvement over the colonial experience) in the official order (but with lots of anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism surviving, even unto the present day). Mark D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05000893614655251587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-34287467282293624342015-08-03T17:55:21.247-04:002015-08-03T17:55:21.247-04:00"With slight shades of difference, you have t...<i>"With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion..."</i><br /><br />This one gets mostly skipped over these days. ;-)Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com