03-15-2016, 02:15 PM
(03-15-2016, 02:08 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I think the Founding Fathers were basically eyeballing different denominations of Chrisianity. Not that other religions wouldn't be included, but they didn't want one national denomination. If I'm not mistaken, some of our colonies defined themselves by denomination. Maryland was Catholic and Virginia was Protestant.
Pretty much all colonies did this. South was Anglican to the east and on the frontier you had Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, and some other smaller groups. They stuck to the frontier to avoid the state meddling in their affairs, though all of their preachers if ordained had to be ordained Anglican. Maryland was a Catholic colony. Pennsylvania was technically free of this sort of thing, but it was a Quaker colony. They were just more accepting of others. Calvinists tended to populate the north.
