From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:44:40 -0500, Adam  wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:43:39 -0500, Dave
 wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:08:48 -0500, "Gary Wiltshire"

>>> wrote in message :
>>>
>>> | Not defending GB's viewpoint, but "Anglicans"
(including their local
>>> | equivalents, "Episcopalians") are in a minority
here, even of
>>> Christians.
>>>
>>> They are, now...
>>>
>>> How many Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, evangelicals, Unitarians,
>>> Seventh-Day Adventests, Jehovah's Witnesses,  and non-denominationals
>>> were there in the Constitutional Convention?
>>  I don't know, but my recent reading of Selected Works of Thomas Paine
>> certainly shows that the Church of England was a mere minority.
>> Frankly any single denomination is and probably was a minority.
>>  --Gary Wiltshire
>
> http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/midcol.htm
>
> But what it does show is that the Catholics (Gary B's professed
> religion) were not exactly strong in a place dominated by fairly
> hardline Protestants & Quakers.
>
> So it's not like the Pope or his adherents can claim any role in forming
> the US constitution etc.
>
> Adam

And your url does not contradict what I said.  In fact it reinforces
Paines's impression that the Presbyterians were the largest group but still
itself a minority.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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