"So, where were the Protestant nations in this colonial scramble? While both Holland and Sweden established colonies in what became the United States, both stakeholds were small and eventually consumed by the nation that became the Protestant colonial power, Great Britain. And while the British were late in establishing colonies (Jamestown in Virginia was not founded until 1607), not only was it Britain's thirteen colonies that became the United States but the British experience with the Reformation that best explains its late entry into the Americas and the creation of the Mainline in the United States."
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Jason S. Lantzer, “Mainline Christianity: The Past and Future of America's Majority Faith”, “The Mainline's Slippery Slope”, p. 13
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