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Church attendance will still pretty much a regular ritual for most of the people, about three-fourths of the twenty-three million Americans in 1850. Alexis de Tocqueville stated that there was no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
The Calivinist rigor that had long been followed in the American churches were now getting quite redundant. The rationalist ideas of the French Revolutionary era had done much to soften the older orthodoxy. For example Thomas Paine declared that all churches were set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. American anticlericalism was seldom this virulent, but many of the Founding Father, including Jefferson and Franking, followed these liberal doctrines of Deism that Paine had promoted throughout his literature.
Deists relied on reason rather than revelation, such as on science rather than the Bible. They rejected the concept of......

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