ARP340 The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

American Revolution Podcast

Michael Troy

Education, History

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🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Thomas Jefferson drafts a bill to prevent Virginia Tax dollars from being used to support the state church, Anglicanism in the colonial era. The church itself rebrands itself as the Episcopal Church, but still hopes for state support. For years, the debate rages. After Jefferson leaves for France, James Madison takes up leadership on the fight, getting the Assembly to pass the bill in 1786. Blog https://blog.AmRevPodcast.com includes a complete transcript, as well as pictures, and links related to this week's episode. Book Recommendation of the Week: Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia, by Thomas Buckley (borrow on archive.org). Online Recommendation of the Week: Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, 1785, by James Madison: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-08-02-0163 Join American Revolution Podcast on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmRevPodcast Ask your American Revolution Podcast questions on Quora: https://amrevpod.quora.com Join the Facebook group, American Revolution Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/132651894048271 Follow the podcast on Twitter @AmRevPodcast Join the podcast mail list: https://mailchi.mp/d3445a9cd244/american-revolution-podcast-by-michael-troy ARP T-shirts and other merch: http://tee.pub/lic/AmRevPodcast Support this podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AmRevPodcast or via PayPal http://paypal.me/AmRevPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.6	This week, episode of 340, the Virginia statute for religious freedom.
0:59.1	In January of 1786, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. In January of 1786, the Virginia legislature passed the Virginia statute for religious freedom. This was seen as a landmark change, not only for Virginia,
1:04.8	but one that it would eventually spread throughout the Union. The notion of religious freedom
1:09.3	was a departure from the customary practices in Europe.
1:13.1	For centuries, European powers had an official state religion. In good times, they tolerated
1:18.9	other religions and treated the practitioners as second-class citizens. In bad times,
1:25.2	practitioners of unapproved religions were imprisoned, expelled, tortured, or executed.
1:31.2	Religion was closely tied to the state.
1:34.1	Worshiping differently from the sovereign was often seen as a form of treason.
1:38.8	For centuries prior to this time, Roman Catholicism dominated Western and Central Europe,
1:46.3	with Orthodox Christianity dominating to the east of that. Outside of a handful of places that tolerated Judaism,
1:52.2	most other non-Christian religions were forbidden. When Martin Luther went against the Catholic
1:57.6	Church in the early 1500s, that set off a wave of Protestantism in Europe
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