America Quote by Walter Russell Mead

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been…

— Stanley Hauerwas

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a sign of…

— Kurt Andersen

“THE BIG PIECE of secular conventional wisdom about Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to…

— Kurt Andersen

“The establishment of Protestant Christianity was one not only of law, but also, and far more importantly, of culture. Christianity supplied the nation with…

— Gary DeMar

Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual Unitarism. Only…

— Lewis Browne

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

— Ross Douthat

Institutional Christianity has had clear secular benefits to American life for hundreds of years. It's played both a prophetic role in terms of generating…

— Ross Douthat

“Protestantism's evolution away from hierarchy and authority has enormous consequences for America and the world. On the one hand, the democratization of religion runs…

— Sarah Vowell

“Am I Catholic or Protestant...? God, I don't know..." -Britain (after having a little too much to drink)”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in…

— Stanley Hauerwas

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations…

— George Carey