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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (343111)	7/13/2007 12:33:11 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574097

if you were a liberal CJ would have agreed with you.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (343111)	7/13/2007 1:01:40 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574097

Yes. Did you? Many immigrants to New England, who were motivated by a desire for greater religious freedom, actually soon found repression under the Puritan theocracy to be far more repressive than any "oppression" of their faith that they had experienced back in Britain. (For example see: Roger Williams, Stephen Bachiler, Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, etc.) Puritan oppression, including torture and imprisonment of many leaders of non-Puritan Christian sects, led to the (voluntary or involuntary) "banishment" of many Christian leaders and their followers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This negative impact of Puritanism on many new colonists had a positive result on American history in that it led to the founding of many new colonies—Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New Hampshire, and others—as religious havens that were created for devout Christians who wanted to live outside the oppressive reach of Puritan theocracy.