Sunday, March 6, 2016
RE THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION UNREST WITCHCRAFT
Ultimately, on the religious right, we are perhaps in something like the posture of the New England colonies in, say, 1689......
They had rebelled against the concept of The Dominion of New England.
They were facing wars from foreign enemies, notably the French and their Indian allies, whom they considered demons, heathens, heretics, Papists, atheists, and infidels.
Of course, their businesses, in the port towns, were mainly in smuggling, but they saw no inconsistency between that and their severe religious and political intolerances.
Finally, we will doubtless see the new emergence, in this so called post enlightened age, of claims of witchcraft, which erupted shortly after that time.
See Robert Allison's lecture: The New England Uprising of 1689.
They had rebelled against the concept of The Dominion of New England.
They were facing wars from foreign enemies, notably the French and their Indian allies, whom they considered demons, heathens, heretics, Papists, atheists, and infidels.
Of course, their businesses, in the port towns, were mainly in smuggling, but they saw no inconsistency between that and their severe religious and political intolerances.
Finally, we will doubtless see the new emergence, in this so called post enlightened age, of claims of witchcraft, which erupted shortly after that time.
See Robert Allison's lecture: The New England Uprising of 1689.
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