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Which part do you like? The lie about the "vigor and vigilance of Baptists in the early days of our national history"?? The American colonists were Congregationalists and Presbyterians. Who are these Baptists who shaped American government??
| Isaac Backus was one. Baptists became much more prominent after the First Great Awakening. | Well, all right. I guess I was thinking of earlier. Shouldn't they really be thanking the Presbyterians who revised the WCF for the separation of Church and State, though?  |
Here is another article about Backus. Backus predated the revised WCF by decades and I don't think anyone on either side would disagree that the revision is much closer to his views than it is to the original. The revisions of the WCF came after the Constitutional Convention as well.