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To: Brumar89 who wrote (362780)	12/13/2007 10:26:02 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586862

"How could it be when there were so few of them? " Because in many of the colonies they weren't legal religions. So there weren't any churches. Jefferson, for example, said he would like to be a Unitarian, but there were no Unitarian churches in Virginia. Anglican was the colony religion. But, Anglican wasn't the only mandated religion. undergodprocon.org Even in those colonies which had no official religion, you often were still required to be a Protestant. So, if you had any aspirations for politics, you were a member of either the officially sanctioned church or some other Protestant church. Those who were anything else were very brave individuals.