alt.education

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:30:33 +0000 (UTC), cary@ (Cary
Kittrell) wrote:

>In article <8ekng35jee76v71uttg20m74d099n0aciv@ > duke writes:
>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:12:47 +0000 (UTC), cary@ (Cary
>> Kittrell) wrote:
>>
>> >In article <8mmmg3pgdbphenj5bkbu4gr1oerelammhb@ > duke writes:
>> >> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 23:07:23 +0000 (UTC), cary@ (Cary
>> >> Kittrell) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> >No, I do not. And these people felt that they could interfere with
>> >> >> >other people's religions as well. they were not tolerant of their
>> >> >> >religious beliefs.
>> >> >> They told you that?
>> >>
>> >> >In the Puritan colony of Massachusetts:
>> >>
>> >> > [In 1657] a fine of forty shillings was imposed for every hour of
>> >> > entertainment of a Quaker, and imprisonment until the fine was paid;
>> >> > and any Quaker who came into the jurisdiction was to have one ear cut
>> >> > off and put to work in the House of Correction, the penalty to be
>> >> > repeated for the second offense. Any Quaker who had before "suffered
>> >> > the law" and returned, was to be severely whipt and sent to the House
>> >> > of Correction, and for the third offense his tongue was to be bored
>> >> > with a hot iron, besides his being imprisoned. The next year a fine of
>> >> > ten shillings was imposed upon any one professing Quakerism, or meeting
>> >> > with the Quakers; for speaking in their meetings a fine of five pounds.
>> >> > A little later it was enacted that every Quaker found within the
>> >> > jurisdiction, and any person who defended Quaker doctrines, was to be
>> >> > committed to prison, and if found guilty, after trial by special jury,
>> >> > to be banished on pain of death; and every "inhabitant" who should
>> >> > favor Quakers was to be imprisoned one month and banished on pain of
>> >> > death. In carrying out the sentence of banishment, even women, stripped
>> >> > to the waist, and tied to a cart?s tail, were whipped from town, to
>> >> > town, and carried on a two days? journey into the wilderness, among
>> >> > wolves and bears. To cap the climax of intolerance, Quakers were hanged
>> >> > in 1659, 1660, and 1661.
>> >>
>> >> >Anabaptists and Antinomiams in Puritan Massachustetts were treated only
>> >> >slightly better.
>> >>
>> >> There are over 30,000 protest_ants faiths today.
>>
>> >And this has what, exactly, to do with the fact that many religious
>> >immigrants came here, not to establish what we today think of
>> >as religious freedom, but rather to set up cultures where
>> >they could institute their own flavor as the only allowable
>> >one?
>>
>> You see the ant hill, I see the mountain.
>>
>> >By the way, that figure of 30,000?
>> >Let's see your cite:
>>
>> It's time you start earning our college degree, asu.

>You made the intuitively highly unlikely claim of 30,000
>flavors of Protestantism; let's see you back it up:

Sorry, bubba, but if you don't realize that, and can't do a simple search, you
don't belong in this conversation.

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#5 response is close.

duke, American-American
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