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Christianity was introduced to North America as it was colonized by Europeans beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish , French , and British brought Roman Catholicism to the colonies of New Spain , New France and Maryland respectively, while Northern European peoples introduced Protestantism to Massachusetts Bay Colony , New ...
Eastern Orthodoxy reached to the North American continent with the founding of Russian America in the 1740s. After Russia sold Alaska in 1867 some of the missionaries remained. [187] In the 21st century Eastern Orthodox Christianity represents numerous adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations.
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes from the College of ... "The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity".
At the time of the American revolution, many branches of Christians, including Baptists, Anglicans and Presbyterians, were represented in the United States. If the Founding Fathers had decided to ...
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...
George Washington in 1772 by Charles Willson Peale. The religious views of George Washington have long been debated. While some of the other Founding Fathers of the United States, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, were noted for writing about religion, Washington rarely discussed his religious and philosophical views.
American Christianity is at an inflection point. There is “a war for the essence and character of American Christianity,” writes Tim Alberta, a national political reporter for the Atlantic.