twitter will expose you to types of guys that you thought were extinct
A funny angle of knowing American history is appreciating that a lot of the foreign papist hordes streaming in to corrupt New England in H.P. Lovecraft’s time would have been Portuguese
This is such a strange way of categorizing US religion. The Baptist movement is so important to the history of religion in the USA, but on this map it’s completely subsumed into Protestantism (I think?).
I mean I kind of get what you’re getting at, that in America “Protestant” groups together European-heritage (or early American built in their model) “mainline” churches, distinct “evangelical” or “fundamentalist” traditions, and even Second or Third Great Awakening and other domestically founded stuff like the Adventists in an unhelpfully reductive way.
On the other hand, the notion of breaking out specifically the Baptist movement from the rest of American Protestantism seems like such an even stranger and more foreign way of categorizing things to me that it makes me wonder if you’re not in a much Baptist-heavier bubble than me that the distinction seems that significant.
