On 12/17/2012 11:36 PM, Stephen wrote:
> 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.

Or for an even better example, the people who claim to be oppressed by them.

Regards,
John

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