Forced worship stinks in the nostrils of God. - Roger Williams, - TopicsExpress



          

Forced worship stinks in the nostrils of God. - Roger Williams, perhaps one of the greatest early British Americans too many Americans have never heard of. Among other things he - believed that the English had no right to steal land from the natives or to feel superior to them; - published the first English language dictionary of any native language and culture; - founded Rhode Island as the first territory in modern history that explicitly separated church and state and had no official religion - Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Quakers, and Anabaptists were all welcome; - developed the concept of a separation wall between church and state well over a century before Thomas Jefferson; - may have been the first American abolitionist.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:20:55 +0000

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