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In 1636 the Puritans in England banished Williams due to his non-conformist views, and he founded the city of [[Providence]], Rhode Island as a haven for all religions that were being denied freedom of religious speech elsewhere. Williams personally remained a [[Calvinist]]. He could speak the language of the Indians and was friendly with them, though he defended Rhode Island against [[King Philip's War]]. Williams himself earned a living based on farming and trading.
In 1636 the Puritans in England banished Williams due to his non-conformist views, and he founded the city of [[Providence]], Rhode Island as a haven for all religions that were being denied freedom of religious speech elsewhere. Williams personally remained a [[Calvinist]]. He could speak the language of the Indians and was friendly with them, though he defended Rhode Island against [[King Philip's War]]. Williams himself earned a living based on farming and trading.
==Wall Of Separation==
Although often attributed to Thomas Jefferson, the concept of a wall of separation between state and religion can be found within Williams' writing:
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World. ("Mr. Cotton's Letter Lately Printed, Examined and Answered," The Complete Writings of Roger Williams, Volume 1, page 108 (1644))<ref>http://atheism.about.com/od/churchstatemyths/a/SeparationCommunistPlot.htm</ref>
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[[Category:New England]]
[[Category:New England]]