tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post2420176231272978162..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Quote of the day: American independence and religious libertyBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-47063272916086878402011-06-03T13:43:48.816-06:002011-06-03T13:43:48.816-06:00Mark: A very good reason Charles Carroll wrote tha...Mark: A very good reason Charles Carroll wrote that.<br /><br />By the mid-1700s, Maryland had been swamped with demographic majority of [Virginia, I believe] Protestants, who set about persecuting Catholics.<br /><br />Carroll's father wrote him:<br /><br /><i>"Maryland is no longer a fit place for a Catholic to live in."</i> <br /><br />Fascinating bit of little-known history.<br /><br /><i>Maryland was converted into a Royal colony, and a governor was sent over from <br />England. Encouraged by the English government, the new provincial authorities <br />now began a reign of bigotry and intolerance that ended only with the <br />Revolutionary War. Catholics in Maryland were deprived of every vestige of the <br />religious freedom they had extended to others. It became a penal offense for <br />them even to send their children to France to be educated in the Catholic faith. <br />The purpose was to drive the Catholics out of Maryland entirely. Charles <br />Carroll, father of Carroll of Carrollton, wrote, "Maryland is no longer a fit <br />place for a Catholic to live in."</i><br /><br />http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/church/history/cath-1927.txtTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-44237995484195252812011-06-03T13:28:54.482-06:002011-06-03T13:28:54.482-06:00Mark,
I think this is pertinant to today's &qu...Mark,<br />I think this is pertinant to today's "culture wars", because when public policy is defined on "God's will", it becomes dangerous in today's world of religious ideology. <br /><br />Religion systemizes "faith" in such a way that it inevitably politicizes it. And when the metaphysical becomes the definer of policy, then our country is headed down some stormy, turbulant roads, that paved the way to heresy trials..and other such things that men determined not by the "real world", but a supernatural one...the "real" becomes a matter of imagination, and speculaton, and not a matter of "real world" realities...<br /><br />Our nation needs to focus on the problems at home, before we loose the ability to survive.Angie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.com