Religion in post-war USA and CSA.

Reggie Bartlett

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How would different branches of Christanity and Judaism take hold in these two countries?

How do branches like Southern Baptist, Catholicism, Methodism, Anglican/Episcopalian, Church of Christ, Presbyterian and Mormonism go in both of them?
 

Superaquaspiderbatman

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Reggie Bartlett said:
How would different branches of Christanity and Judaism take hold in these two countries?

How do branches like Southern Baptist, Catholicism, Methodism, Anglican/Episcopalian, Church of Christ, Presbyterian and Mormonism go in both of them?
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I'm assuming you're thinking if slavery was kept in the CSA long term (which is pretty ASB, but let's go with it for the sake of the question)

Since many religions have a tendency to adapt to the society they're around, so you'd have the same pattern here. We've seen it in the US with large parts of the ELCA* shunning traditional Christian positions based on Scripture and the tradition of the Church Catholic (not = what is normally called "the catholic church") to be more "inclusive" and what have you, because "inclusive" is the buzzword of the day.

Thus, you'd have branches of the mainstream churches in the CSA developing theologies to justify slavery and racism, and then you'd have those called "fundies" rejecting those theologies as heterodox, at best.





* Only using them as an example. There are plenty of OTHER examples. And, as always, within the ELCA, there are the symbolic 7,000 who haven't bent their knees to Ba'al yet.
 

Reggie Bartlett

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Superaquaspiderbatman said:
I'm assuming you're thinking if slavery was kept in the CSA long term (which is pretty ASB, but let's go with it for the sake of the question)

Since many religions have a tendency to adapt to the society they're around, so you'd have the same pattern here. We've seen it in the US with large parts of the ELCA* shunning traditional Christian positions based on Scripture and the tradition of the Church Catholic (not = what is normally called "the catholic church") to be more "inclusive" and what have you, because "inclusive" is the buzzword of the day.

Thus, you'd have branches of the mainstream churches in the CSA developing theologies to justify slavery and racism, and then you'd have those called "fundies" rejecting those theologies as heterodox, at best.





* Only using them as an example. There are plenty of OTHER examples. And, as always, within the ELCA, there are the symbolic 7,000 who haven't bent their knees to Ba'al yet.
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I've always personally believed that most of the Confederate States would drop slavery by the turn of the century, but there would be a couple holdouts (South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas perhaps) as late as the 1910s, but even that won't last forever.

You also have to realize that the CSA has one BIG liberalized Catholic place, and that is New Orleans. Not to mention Episcopal churches being fairly popular in the tidewater regions of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia.
 
Jasen777

Jasen777

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Reggie Bartlett said:
How would different branches of Christanity and Judaism take hold in these two countries?

How do branches like Southern Baptist, Catholicism, Methodism, Anglican/Episcopalian, Church of Christ, Presbyterian and Mormonism go in both of them?
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For one thing, the Methodists had split like the Baptists did, but here they likely won't be getting back together.

It's a tough question. One thing to remember is that it was until after the civil war (and likely specifically because it lost) that the South became the most religious part of the country. That is, by things like church attendance and church influence on society, etc (belief was nearly universal). It is possible with a successful war the CSA/South never becomes the Bible Belt and with a loss it's possible the more mainline denominations lose out to the fundamentalists in the USA/North.
 

SPJ

Jasen777 said:
For one thing, the Methodists had split like the Baptists did, but here they likely won't be getting back together.

It's a tough question. One thing to remember is that it was until after the civil war (and likely specifically because it lost) that the South became the most religious part of the country. That is, by things like church attendance and church influence on society, etc (belief was nearly universal). It is possible with a successful war the CSA/South never becomes the Bible Belt and with a loss it's possible the more mainline denominations lose out to the fundamentalists in the USA/North.
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Interesting. Could you provide any sources on this?

I have wondered what sort of slave religions that died put in OTL might continue to exist in the CSA if it had won. Does anyone have any ideas on this?
 
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