During The American Revolutionary War, the state religion of Great Britain was Christianity?

Even then, I found that hard to swallow.

As Izzy pointed out, Benjamin Disraeli, who became the Prime Minister of Great Britain almost a century after the American revolution, was only able to sit in Parliament because he had converted from Judaism to the Church of England--in his case at the age of 12. The Test Act was repealed in 1828, but the Catholic Relief Act (1829) and the Jewish Relief Act (1858) each prohibited either Catholics or Jews from advising the monarch on ecclesiastic matters--therefore effectively making it impossible for a Catholic of a Jew to be the Prime Minister. I believe that Ramsey MacDonald was the first PM who was not an Anglican, in 1924.

There is no reason to assume that the revolution weakened religion in either Great Britain or in America. In fact, in the years after the American revolution, evangelicalism became a powerful force in England--which is hardly evidence of a weakening of christianity.

You know far too little of the history of the United State or Great Britain to make blanket statements such as you have here.

My remarks about Jefferson have been based on my contempt for him, and the unwarranted, almost surreal hagiography which surrounds him. It has nothing to do with his christianity or lack thereof. Jefferson was opposed to what he saw as religious mumbo-jumbo, but that is not evidence that he was anti-christian. The so-called Jefferson Bible, (which i'm sure you've never heard of until now) is evidence of an admiration for the putative Jesus, even if he eschewed any organized christian sect.

Whatever you allege Contrex to have said about christianity today in the UK is not relevant to the state of christianity in Great Britain more than 230 years ago. I used the term putative because there is no reliable, historical evidence that such an individual as the one now called Jesus existed in Palestine 2000 years ago. I have not "defended" christianity at all. I am not only not a christian,i'm an atheist. What i defended was the historical record from your lame-brain attempt at historical analysis. More than 200 years ago, the populations of both Great Britain and the United States were in the majority christians.

Once again, you don't know enough history to be shooting off your mouth like this.

EDIT: I offered no value judgments on christianity. I didn't say it was a good thing, i didn't say it was a bad thing. I was not defending christianity. I begin to suspect that you lack the ability to judge the meaning of what others say, in whatever language.

But the question is why the population of christians in the United Stated has kept a steady growth after the Revolution, while the actual population of christians in Great Britain has declined since ...?

Now, do you see the relevance?

I don't accept your ipse dixit statement. The purpose of studying history is to better understand human nature. You can keep your Marxist dialectic to yourself. You are the one who keeps shifting the emphasis here. You tried to claim that the Americans attacked christianity in order to lower the morale of the British. That's bullsh*t. It's also bullshit that i defended christianity. Pointing out how very wrong you were is not a defense of christianity. It's just keeping the record straight.

No wonder Thomas Jefferson said:"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
The success of American Independence demanded some degree of anti-Christianity to undermine the morale of the then Great Britain.

Hogwash

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

This statement was made by an official representative of the U.S., but is actually a line from the English version of the Treaty of Tripoli of 1796, initially signed by a representative of the US on 4 November 1796 during Washington's presidency, approved by Congress 7 June 1797 and finally signed by President John Adams on 10 June 1797. Article 11 of it reads:

As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,— as it has in itself no character or enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,— and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

* Joel Barlow, who had served as Washington's chaplain, and was also a good friend of Paine and Jefferson was the representative in charge of the translation.

In his first general order to his troops, General George Washington called on ...

Every officer and man...to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

You have no rhetorical skills

Setanta wrote:

You tried to claim that the Americans attacked christianity in order to lower the morale of the British. That's bullsh*t.

The success of American Independence demanded some degree of anti-Christianity to undermine the morale of the then Great Britain.