How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Freedom for the congregation was not freedom of religion.
Massachusetts Bay was founded by people escaping compulsion who immediately established compulsion: Baptists whipped, Quakers hanged on Boston Common between 1659 and 1661, Roger Williams banished for saying the magistrate had no authority over conscience. The colony's own descendants disestablished the church in 1833, last in the union.
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