Religious Community and American Individualism (From Habits of the Heart

Religious Community and American Individualism (from Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life) ROBERT N. BELLAH, RICHARD MADSEN, WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN, ANN SWIDLER, and STEVEN M. TIPTON
-Many very influential Americans in the nineteenth century, such as Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Tom Paine, and others:

A) committed themselves late in life to building churches that would endure after their deaths
B) were unlikely to accept any religious doctrine, but had their own personal beliefs
C) were also religious scholars or believers who held to very strict interpretations of the Bible
D) believed they had been "born again"
E) were highly prejudiced against most religious faiths, including Catholicism and Judaism