Alan J. Pitts
Re: Christians
Wed Jul 4 18:27:40 2001


I'm not going to call down hail stones or brimstone on anyone who sees things differently. However, after I made that post earlier, I looked at E. M. Coulter's "College Life in the Old South" about the University of Georgia (I'm considering offering it for sale). Speaking of the State of Georgia, on page 193 Coulter says,

"In 1831 there was only about one-tenth of the people who belonged to any church whatsoever. There were about 32,000 Baptists, 27,000 Methodists, 3,000 Presbyterians, and a few Christians, Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Friends, and Jews. All the other Georgians belonged to no Christian church even as the heathen Chines -- 451,000 of them went about their business rejoicing."

Coulter takes these figures from the American Almanac of 1832, page 233.

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