Prayer and the President

Prayer and the President

160 percent between 1740 and 1776.
Ordinary colonists simply had less narrow views of Christian doctrine than their pastors had, the authors~conclude. Thus, the "in- differency" clergymen decried was simply a lack of concern for de- nominational differences. When Charles Woodmason, an Anglican priest in rural South Carolina in the 1760s, denounced the region's "infidels and Atheists," he meant that they were not Anglicans. Thriv- ing Presbyterian, Baptist, and independent churches...

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