Boston Review: The Eternal Return of the Christian Nation.
“The goal was to argue for individualism and individual salvation and against claims of a larger public good. They wanted to restore self-reliance and oppose unions and welfare. Just as the first advocates of Christian America had sought to intertwine republicanism and Christianity, the advocates of this new version sought to intertwine capitalism and Christianity.” I cannot fathom how such a good article can go for so many words and paragraphs without mentioning Deism or Thomas Paine. Still - read it. You’ll need it for the upcoming contest.
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Great article, thanks. Came at just the right time as I’ve been reading some old family documents and trying to understand the huge role religion played in my relatives lives in the 19th century. A number of them were Calvinists—fundamentalists and evangelicals but no mention of abortion, gay marriage, etc. I hadn’t realized before how much organized religion dominated society in certain American locales. These people seemed sincere in their belief that theirs was the one true religion. At least they were Abolitionists. The reason many of them hated Catholics was because Catholics had killed their co-religionists back in their homelands.