
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Rossiter , Clinton (1963-09), The Political Thought of the American Revolution (Part Three of Seedtime of the Republic Series), Harcourt, Brace and World, Retrieved on 2011-05-18
Memes
18 MAY 2011
America Forced Christianity to Become More Tolerant
Under the pressure of the American environment, Christianity
grew more humanistic and temperate - more tolerant with
the struggle of the sects, more liberal with the growth of
optimism and rationalism, more experimental with the rise of
science, more individualistic with the advent of democracy.
Equally important, increasing numbers of colonists, as a legion of preachers loudly lamented, were turning secular in
curiosity and skeptical in attitude.America was a beach head of liberalism.