Except that the crazy religious nutjobs mainly created their own state churches in the North. The real reason is that the USA was the first time in a long while where there wasn’t a state presence trying to control religion for various reasons. You’d get random preachers going around the newly settled parts trying to sell people on their form of Jesus and being able to change their Jesus to fit local tastes.
It turns out that making going to church entertaining and preaching that everyone in the room were good people helped get converts
America was founded by religious nutjobs who were too crazy for the local European nutters. What did you think would happen?
Except that the crazy religious nutjobs mainly created their own state churches in the North. The real reason is that the USA was the first time in a long while where there wasn’t a state presence trying to control religion for various reasons. You’d get random preachers going around the newly settled parts trying to sell people on their form of Jesus and being able to change their Jesus to fit local tastes.
It turns out that making going to church entertaining and preaching that everyone in the room were good people helped get converts