Protestantism

» pink101 - What's Incorrect?

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Maybe we could proceed along a line of enlightenment rather than me trying to show how wrong you are?
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What I meant to convey was that the Americans were the only people who hadn't lived under such tyrannies as had taken place during the Dark and Middle Ages. So, their idea of what it meant to be persecuted was different than what it was in England and the mainland where people really understood persecution.
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Actually, the Americans had it pretty easy compared to the Old Country experience with very few exceptions.
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Were those the "good old days?"

During the "good old days" of the COLONIAL ERA on the North American continent, Puritan preachers referred to Native Americans as "Amelkites and Canaanites" -- in other words, people, who, if they would not be converted, were worthy of annihilation. Even Maryland's famous "Act Concerning Religion," passed in 1649, which supposedly instituted "freedom of religion" for the first time in an American colony, stated in its first section that any person who blasphemed God, denied that Jesus was the Savior and Son of God, denied the Trinity, or uttered "reproachful" words concerning the Trinity "or any of the three persons therein," would be executed and forfeit their estates.

Citizenship rights were denied to American colonists who were not Christian church members. Dancing was rated by several Protestant denominations as an unforgivable sin. Any defamer of the Bible could be jailed for blasphemy. Baptist evangelists were persecuted by order of civil laws in the colony of Virginia, a state that only recognized the Anglican church as the one true church. In Salem, Massachusetts they hung people who were accused of being "witches." And four Quakers were hung in Massachusetts merely for being Quakers! Taken from this site: http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/babinski/r...
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-- posted by pink101