Re: A.Word.A.Day--henotheism (fwd)

J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 18:32:43 -0500 (EST)

Yeah, absolutely, Liz.  But they sure defined tolerance differently. 
Some states had laws requiring that tithes be paid, and supported
churches in that way.  There were, besides Deists, at least two different
brands of Puritans (initially)--some of them coming over not so much to
found a country based upon the principal of religious tolerance, but to
"do it right this time," to found something like a New Jerusalem.  This
is a bit earlier than the Constitutional period, but we still see some of
that even then.  

Religious tolerance, for them, meant being left alone to pursue their
vision, but within the context of their community, well, It Wasn't Very
Tolerant at all...

The founding fathers did set the stage for what we have now, however.  

Jim

> 
> Most of the fathers of the Constitution were diests, especially
Thomas Jefferson. So the founding of this country was founded on
religious tolerance.
-Liz Friedman>>

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