On 17/12/2012 9:52 PM, clipka wrote:
>
> The truth is that they never sought religious tolerance in the first
> place - they had always strived for their own rules to be law.
> Unfortunately for them those rules contradicted the Church of England's,
> so they did suffer from religiously-motivated oppression, and this
> indeed happened to be the one factor that drove them to America. But
> that's about it.
>

You are correct of course but it is received wisdom that it is true. And 
IMNSHO England was well rid of them. I only wish that they had taken the 
Scottish Presbyterians with them.

> It's an all too common misconception that every person subject to
> oppression and fighting against it is automatically a warrior for
> tolerance.

Now that is very true. For an example you only have to look at a certain 
state in the middle East, founded after WWII.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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