i don’t think it was a big deal. They were mostly all Protestants.
Here is what George Washington says in his Farewell Address:
“With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.”
He says it beautifully. SLIGHT SHADES OF DIFFRENCE.
aka No Big Deal between the denominations.
The fact that this nation is comprised of citizens other than those described above, is the reason for losing our cohesiveness.
That’s all I wanted to share about this.
Thank you.
Washington was apparently emphasizing what he saw as the commonalities among the people and in their religious beliefs.
But at the time, those differences were considerable, and led even to different Protestant groups persecuting each other. When I have more time, I can post more about that, but suffice to say that there were genuine and deep problems and differences among Puritans, Quakers, Baptists, Lutherans, and Anglicans, etc., and there were many Catholics and some Jews here as well.
And even where there was some acceptance to allow those of different sects to have their own churches and not try to interfere with them, that doesn’t mean that Lutherans and Baptists would have accepted an Anglican state religion established by Congress, or Anglicans and Puritans would have accepted a Baptist state religion established by Congress, etc. Certainly in establishing a Union, that was the danger, that one sect would grow the most powerful and establish itself as the national religion, if it were allowed to, and that would have been a public concern of the time.