This is how the left advances, it passes people such as Foner off as scholars. I was looking in this article to see if religion was mentioned. The clergy preaching sedition from the pulpit was a normal complaint.Didn’t really expect the Times to quote a selection if Christianity were mentioned but when I saw Foner, I was knew if it were there, it would be not be quoted.
Indeed...as you know, a case has been made that the Revolution may not have succeeded without the fiery Presbyterian minsters of the time. The Reverend John Witherspoon of Princeton University (at the time, The College of New Jersey) is one of my absolute favorites of the RevWar (it is interesting to note that the actress Reese Witherspoon is his direct descendant).