At that time, public schools were de facto
nondenominational Protestant schools.
The first such amendments were enacted in the late 19th century, when the public schools functioned as de facto
nondenominational Protestant schools.
In those days, most public schools, known as «common schools,» operated as
nondenominational Protestant schools.
If you're
a nondenominational Protestant whose main experience of men of the cloth comes from camp meetings, Bible studies, and altar calls, the sight is even stranger.
If you're
a nondenominational Protestant whose main experience of men of the cloth....
Not exact matches
Forty - seven percent of
Protestant schools had such courses, as did about a third of Roman Catholic and
nondenominational schools.
Slightly over a third of the
Protestant schools and nearly a fifth of the
nondenominational enclaves also were thoroughly evolutionist.
[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148
Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231
Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815
Young - earth creationism dominated at less than a tenth of the
Protestant outposts and a fifth of the
nondenominational schools.
Each of the mixed stances, moreover, is established at roughly a quarter of the
Protestant and
nondenominational schools.
Moreover, the religion shown in such public exercises was not just «religion in general,» but quite distinctively
Protestant Christianity, albeit, typically, in a fairly
nondenominational form.
And you right, not all Catholics take penance and forgiveness seriously, not every catholic amends their life, But so doesn't every
nondenominational,
protestants or baptists.
He also refers to himself not as a «
Protestant» but as a «Christian» (or an «evangelical»), an umbrella term that, according to Mexican
Protestants, covers followers of Christ ranging from Pentecostals to Presbyterians to various
nondenominational gatherings but excludes Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.