Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Native American land.
After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God, Williams named the community “Providence.”
Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson—like Williams, she had been exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons—some of the first Jews to settle in North America, and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.
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And later, when 90% of future Rhode Islanders, in the then-colony called Providence Plantations, declined to sign on the new, vaunted “free country” called the united [sic] States, they were immediately threatened with armed invasion.
America has always been a joke, starting right after the ink dried on the Declaration of “Independence”. It was only a pretty speech. Where’s the beef?
2024 = 1776 2.0, for real this time . . . though I’m not holding my breath.
An early Baptist preacher was arrested in colonial NE for preaching (the orthodox Gospel, aka Christianity 101) without a license and got a long prison sentence. That implies some real damned heretics calling themselves the Real Christians in colonial times. Not a good start.
You can’t read the whole NT and believe treating a fellow Christian like that would be acceptable to Christ, unless you were a non-believing heretic (or apostate or pagan, depending on specifics) like what the NT (and OT) warns about.
So then, of course, the way the Freemasons “fixed the problem” was just opening the door to any and all paganism and idolatry.
The more you learn about the early plantations the more you will hate the leaders and churches and owners.
As you said in another thread (I had to hunt it down because I thought it appropriate here):
Try to keep that same open eye to what you read about New England.