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  • Calvinist protestantism is the perfect accompaniment to teabagger parnaoia and FoxNews alarmism.

    Think Progress » Republicans Block Bills Ensuring Continuation Of Military Health Care 2010

  • This was known as protestantism: and to its varieties it was not the business of the legislature to have regard.

    The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

  • And, in every point, the opposition to what I may be allowed to call the protestantism of the nineteenth century is so manifest, that we cannot but feel that the peculiar character of the system is to be traced to what I have before noticed -- the extreme antipathy of its founders to the spirit which they felt to be predominant in their own age and country.

    The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps Thomas Arnold 1818

  • Parliament therefore was bound to establish and endow some kind of protestantism, and not to establish or endow popery.

    The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

  • "And ere the schoolmaster could call his protestantism to his aid, he had ended his prayer with the cry:

    Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

  • Protestant missionaries came into these pueblos and disturbed the order of things which bestowed power among an elite practicing this unique form of Roman Catholicism and converts to protestantism resisted, in general, compliance with long established community practices including participation in important community affairs requring a form of "tithing" and community service and obedience to the council in power.

    Chamula Power 2009

  • Protestant missionaries came into these pueblos and disturbed the order of things which bestowed power among an elite practicing this unique form of Roman Catholicism and converts to protestantism resisted, in general, compliance with long established community practices including participation in important community affairs requring a form of "tithing" and community service and obedience to the council in power.

    Chamula Power 2009

  • Protestant missionaries came into these pueblos and disturbed the order of things which bestowed power among an elite practicing this unique form of Roman Catholicism and converts to protestantism resisted, in general, compliance with long established community practices including participation in important community affairs requring a form of "tithing" and community service and obedience to the council in power.

    Chamula Power 2009

  • Protestant missionaries came into these pueblos and disturbed the order of things which bestowed power among an elite practicing this unique form of Roman Catholicism and converts to protestantism resisted, in general, compliance with long established community practices including participation in important community affairs requring a form of "tithing" and community service and obedience to the council in power.

    Chamula Power 2009

  • Protestant missionaries came into these pueblos and disturbed the order of things which bestowed power among an elite practicing this unique form of Roman Catholicism and converts to protestantism resisted, in general, compliance with long established community practices including participation in important community affairs requring a form of "tithing" and community service and obedience to the council in power.

    Chamula Power 2009

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  • 1783 article (not really): "Citizens Are Now Free to Practice Any Form of Protestantism They Want."

    October 7, 2008