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Originally posted by 33girl
I thought of giving it to my Catholic friend who when I asked her what denom her bf was ("He's Protestant." "Yes, but what denomination?" "Protestant .") but I didn't want to freak her out.
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Yeah, it was that specific, especially with most fraternities prior to the Civil War. It wasn't enough to be Protestant. Some were for Methodists, some for Presbyterians, etc. This was a characteristic of Era I fraternities, those founded prior to the Civil War.
Phi Psi, founded by Presbyterians, is the only fraternity from this period, of which I'm aware, that was non-sectarian. The gentleman who wrote our ritual was studying to become a Presbyterian minister. He was born on a ship in the Indian Ocean to Christian missionaries, and grew up in Indian culture. He had an unusaually broad world view about different religions, and this explains why we weren't just for Presbyterians at the time of our founding.