Religion & the Founding: Bonomi's 'Under the Cope of Heaven' | National Catholic Reporter

Religion & the Founding: Bonomi's 'Under the Cope of Heaven' | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I suspect that criticism of the middle colonies as faithless is the result of continued bigotry against the Society of Friends (why my family was part of in New England).  As far as the emergence of individualism in religious thought, it likely mirrored the economic individualism caused by the development of urban infrastructure.  Then, of course, you have the whole discussion of you did not build that!  The governmental infrastructure possible when you are not building log cabin homes, trying to find food and killing Natives is ot to be underestimated.  Suddenly, who holds the control of Connecticut is an actual issue.



The extent that reglious questions are important in that legislature is the extent to which they are part of the politicization of life - and because such questions are not really important for governence, the degree to which they are divorced from politics - making securarism a good thing which the Bishops fail to grasp, having not had that experience of the founding movements - including the link between Crown and Miter.  They certainly have blinders on the issue of how bishops from England raised the mentioned anti-catholicism. Of course, this wold ruin their baptism of the founding - which was baptized, but not by a Catholic priest.  Still, the starting of committees of correspondence was in interesting development - which now seems to be duplicated by the Internet.  This explains the religious wars of the web sites - and the bishops mostly ignoring it hoping it will go way.  Not a chance.  Nor wil they adopt the role of dissent in protestant religion - more is the pity.  The rejection of liberation theology is enough evidence of that on both the religious and secular sides.



An interesting book for those who are followers of American political thinking (hope it is included in such courses).  Still, without a book about the history of the Masons in America, the picture remains incomplete.