Colonial Rhode Island was predominately Quaker, Presbyterian, Puritan, and Catholic. Since, its neighboring state, Massachusetts, was predominately Puritan, and very strict (Fundamentalistic). Therefore, many who settled Rhode Island were outcasts from other Christian denominations originally based in Massachesetts, and thus the disparate religious population of Rhode Island during the Colonial Period.
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I believe Rhode Island was settled on the basis of Religious freedom, you didn't have to conform to one religion set by the colony.
Rhode Island
The Sunshine State,
Providence Plantations.
Freedom of religion
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As a colony where the free practice of religion was accepted.
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Rhode Island was about the only colony without an official religion, so practice was left to the individual conscience.