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In late eighteenth-century America, Anglican "Parson" Woodmason wrote of the Baptists he observed in the "Carolina backcountry".

They don't all agree in one Tune. For one sings this Doctrine, and the next something different--so that Peoples Brains are turn'd and bewilder'd Then again to see them Divide and Sub divide, split into Parties--Rail at and excommunicate one another--Turn out of one meeting and receive in to another--And a Gang of them getting together and gabbling one after the other (and sometimes disputing against each other) on abstruse Theological Questions such as the greatest Metaphysicians and Learned Scholars never yet could define, or agree on--To hear Ignorant Wretches, who can not write discussing such Knotty Points for the Edification of their Auditors must give High offence to all Intelligent and rational Minds.

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Such caricatures of religion in the "back country" set the scene for s William Shakespeare - Wikipedia SOCYT