[LS]

Exactly, and the "personal witness/born again" approach of the Baptists like Billy Sunday and Smith Wigglesworth (I know, he wasn't a Baptist) and Billy Graham was a phenomena that didn't really appear until the mid-1800s in most places.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Well, traveling preachers wouldn't have had as large a congregations without the singing, dancing and pew jumping that came to epitomize the church of the bible belt and in may ways still does to this day.

Just because the Founding Fathers didn't have a hallelujah chorus and tambourine shakers following them everywhere they went doesn't men their faith was missing.