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Having researched this in the past — and I am not a Calvinist — the Calvinists were far and away the largest group of founding fathers. Anglicans of the day were also largely out of the cromwell Calvinist influence, iirc.

I’m a Methodist Only one or two of the founders were Methodist. Mitigating that, of course, is that Methodism was brand new in America at that time.

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"I’m a Methodist Only one or two of the founders were Methodist. Mitigating that, of course, is that Methodism was brand new in America at that time."

And of course the very first Methodist, the one who coined the term "Methodist", George Whitefield, was a Calvinist.

[ConservativeDude]

Mitigating that, of course, is that Methodism was brand new in America at that time.”

And (as you know) its day would come soon enough. It would explode across the fruited plan after about 1800, like a prairie fire!

I’m a Calvinist...But I must say, I am very fond of this man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Asbury