[gusty]

That a way, insult those who built this country. By equating both Catholics and Calvinists as the equivalent of Muslims, you are insulting about 75% or more of the USA. Maybe you did not notice, but those you say have the same mindset as Muslims wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution. and the Bill of Rights. Last I looked, nothing of those type of documents ever were produced by Muslims. By the way, James Madison was educated by Calvinists at Princeton. Dr. Witherspoon was not running a Madrassa out of Nassau Hall.

[rzman21]

What existed in late 18th century America wasn’t orthodox Calvinism of the type that Calvin practiced. Besides the elites mostly were Unitarians by that point.

Puritan Massachusetts is more like a good example of Calvinism in action.