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Before the Groundbreaking Conflict, America was a region divided by different faiths. However when the warfare for freedom sparked in 1776, colonists united under the banner of religious flexibility. Evangelical frontiersmen and Deist intellectuals reserve their differences to defend a idea they shared, the to worship freely. Inspiring an unlikely but powerful alliance, it was the thought of religious liberty that brought the colonists mutually in the challenge against United kingdom tyranny. In God of Liberty, historian Thomas S. Kidd argues that the improbable collaboration of evangelicals and Deists observed America through the brand new Conflict, the ratification of the Constitution, and the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800. A thought-provoking reminder of the key role religion performed in the brand new period, God of Liberty symbolizes both a timely appeal for spiritual diversity and a groundbreaking excavation of how faith powered the American Revolution.