At about the same time, Joseph Smith founded a new American religion-and soon met with the wrath of the mainstream Protestant majority.

几乎同时，约瑟夫·史密斯在美国成立一个全新的教派，不久后就与群情愤激的新教主要力量发生冲突。

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If Protestant farmers are murdered, it is not by reason of their religion, but rather because they are under suspicion as Loyalist.

如果新教徒农民被谋杀，那并不是由于他们的信仰，而是因为他们有保皇派的嫌疑。

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Pennsylvania is also sometimes called the Quaker State. Its founder, William Penn, and most of his followers, were members of the Protestant Quaker religion.

宾夕法尼亚州有时也被称为“教友派之州”。该州的创始人威廉?佩恩，及他的大部分追随者，都是新教徒教友派的成员。

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Its founder,William Penn, and most of his followers,were members of the Protestant Quaker religion.

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The Pew study found that the new Asian immigrants identify themselves, surprisingly, as 22% Protestant and 19% Catholic, but whatever their religion, most of them have in spades what Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic.

WSJ: America's New Tiger Immigrants: Asians in the U.S.

The Hartford Institute For Religion Research defines a megachurch as a Protestant congregation with sustained weekly attendance above 2, 000.

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And as we consider the profound disagreements that exist between the many organized churches within the Christian faith, how long would it be before Americans are fighting over whether the Protestant Church, by way of example, should be the official religion of a state or the nation thereby excluding Catholics, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, or any other Christian based faith?

FORBES: North Carolina Religion Bill Killed-But One Third Of Americans Want Christianity As Official Religion Of USA