“Presbyterians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed and a variety of other faiths with only the vaguest of Christian connection worshipping.”
That is a perception of a “historian” looking through what he may see of Presbyterians, Anglicans, Lutherans and Reformed in our day. The truth is, all of those people in the 1770s, 1780s would have professed a fundamentalist (”Christian Right”) theology and world view. By the way, except for some the reformed who may have continued using the Geneva Bible, all of those pulpits would have had the very same Bible as their text, which gave them a footing for fellowship.
Muawiyah, you are also missing a lot of good history. Are you sure you are not trying to construct history to convince people today that the “Christian Right” is too much involved in Government?
Entirely the opposite. You will find, if you look closely, that the reference to a "variety of other faiths with only the blah blah blah" is NOT a reference to the Presbyterians, et al, but to OTHER FAITHS.
Read "Other Faiths" as being another item in a list.
We've had fundies run the country before and they didn't do as bad a job as the secularists.
However, Dr. Dobson should keep his nose out of the Christian Church Movement type of theology to which Thompson adheres (reaching back to Campbell, Stone, and the Primitive Baptists). He's well within OUR tradition if not his own ~ which is another way of saying Dr. Dobson is theologically in error from at least one other major point of view.