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by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jun 19, 2006 at 11:19:49 AM EST
There is an oft-quoted axiom, attributed to some long dead wise-person.....those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Ifn yu want to understand Christianity in America, yu need to research the history and most especially tha Puritan/Baptist connection. Here's a good website to start yall down tha road to enlightenment http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/puritans.htm . Something to remember, tha Puritans said they emigrated to tha colonies to escape persecution, but if yu go and research tha histories of England and tha Netherlands - they weren't persecuted - they were exiled, kicked out, banished, told to pack up and hit tha road. The only country that hasn't kicked them out----is our country, U.S.of A. and perhaps our ancestors should have. Because one of tha 1st things tha Puritans/Pilgrims did was to Bite tha Indian Hand that fed them. Read tha Pilgrim histories of tha conversion of tha Indians to Pilgrim morals. Pilgrims lynched Indians w/o trials that didn't comply. So I ask, is it any wonder that tha decendants of tha Pilgrim evangelicals should be any less hardcore theocratic? Oh yeah, this is cute, while tha Puritans were in power in Olde England, they outlawed tha celebration of Christmas. In discussions I've been a part of, many are of tha opinion that tha Puritans are a death cult, i.e. they worship tha death of Christ, not his birth and life. Ever notice how enthralled modern evangelicals are with tha last Book of tha Bible?

A Dissenting View of Evangelical Christianity | 35 comments (35 topical)

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