tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post1424491249372859109..comments2024-03-27T18:18:11.525-06:00Comments on American Creation: Roger Williams: RestorationistBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-10177586419146554072010-10-18T19:45:15.912-06:002010-10-18T19:45:15.912-06:00I realize I'm responding to a post that more t...I realize I'm responding to a post that more than two years old, but it includes a significant error: Roger Williams has no connection whatsover to the creation and development of Anabaptism. Rather, Anabaptism was born on January 21, 1525, in Zurich -- more than 75 years before Williams was even born. The first Anabaptists (Mennonites) arrived in the New World in 1683 from Krefeld, Germany.richpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-90150581512509326862008-06-09T19:04:00.000-06:002008-06-09T19:04:00.000-06:00Thanks for the comments, Pinky and Lori. Williams...Thanks for the comments, Pinky and Lori. Williams has always been one of my favorite figures of early American history. The more I study him, the more questions I seem to have. He's simply a fascinating individual.Brad Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-14448848561749980952008-06-09T15:46:00.000-06:002008-06-09T15:46:00.000-06:00What I find most interesting in these facts of his...What I find most interesting in these facts of history is that they show us how we have come to believe the way we do--how we think about things.<BR/>.<BR/>Those times are imprinted in our minds as the ideas men held then grew and developed in our ancestors' personal lives and right up and until the present time. It is how we have come to be who it is that we are.<BR/><BR/>Good article. <BR/>.Phil Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06756814849309388483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-34356536387557570822008-06-09T14:01:00.000-06:002008-06-09T14:01:00.000-06:00Brad, what a great article!! Roger Williams' story...Brad, what a great article!! Roger Williams' story is indeed so much more interesting than his legend. <BR/><BR/>He got booted out of Massachusetts for saying that the Puritan settlers had no right to the land because it was given to them by King Charles, and Charles was a false king and a devil who had no authority on Earth. Williams wanted a group of Mass Puritans to go back to England, rip up their royal charter, then try to save the king's soul and get a new charter. For Puritans trying desperately not to offend the king and be put under royal control, this was too much.<BR/><BR/>And in Rhode Island, before his breakthrough that no church was valid, he had "separated" so much that only his wife and himself were allowed to meet as a church or share communion. Then he snapped back the other way and began to welcome everyone, which is the Williams we know and love.Lori Stokeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15564577844724131369noreply@blogger.com