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But even in this Congregationalist Eden dissentions arose. Dissenters who had left Europe in search of religious freedom frequently denied it to others in their midst. It took a Roger Williams to remind Puritan elders that "forced worship stinks in God's nostrils." Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony, he named his Rhode Island settlement "in commemoration of God's Providence, " drew up America's first document separating church and state, and founded America's first Baptist church
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