Hofstadter! Wilentz! There are probably no two names that make me grind my teeth the way they do. Naturally, I'm going to read the book.https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1220695091771252748 …
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Maybe the notion of original sin somehow merged into genocide?
I’m sure there were some Presbyterians in there, but that was my understanding, yes
They were no more a monolith than people are today, but a lot of the big names we remember (like Franklin or Jefferson) were definitely of that persuasion.
Franklin grew up in a Calvinist household, so not super unlikely some of those ideas were around at the time ref. Weber.
And Scots-Irish.
Nope. It was still strong in New England. Though John Adams eventually became a Unitarian, he was very much raised in that tradition. In any case, Calvin was part of the common intellectual heritage, apart from accepting his religious views.
Calvinism was a major influence among the Founders, however some major figures were deist and the Virginians were Anglican influenced. But they were in and won a shooting war where it was considered patriotic to shoot Anglicans so they held it loosely.
By the Second Great Awakening in the very early 1800s, Methodism was on the rise due to the sour memories of Anglicanism, IIRC
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