tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post6208473193251085539..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Benjamin Rush on "Sects"Brad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-62119704181486382892017-12-05T00:51:41.395-07:002017-12-05T00:51:41.395-07:00"Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall b..."Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all the blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."---Jedidiah Morse<br /><br />I won't be around in 100 years or even 50, but he may yet be proven right. And that goes for Europe too.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-71631685152537119882017-12-04T15:16:51.061-07:002017-12-04T15:16:51.061-07:00Yeah J. Morse quoted in the article is one of thos...Yeah J. Morse quoted in the article is one of those "enforcers" of religious correctness to whom I alluded. Jonathan Rowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079637406589278386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-52947600263842607122017-12-03T15:02:05.541-07:002017-12-03T15:02:05.541-07:00This tolerance was only temporary. During this per...This tolerance was only temporary. During this period, unitarians sat cheek-by-jowl with Trinitarians in the churches of New England. Unitarianism [Socinianism] was tolerated until around 1810, when the whole thing began to blow up.<br /><br />http://pacificuu.org/wilbur/ouh/chapter/35_XXXV.html<br /><br /><i>After the controversy of 1815 the orthodox kept treating the Unitarians in the Church with such increasing narrowness, and kept attacking their beliefs with such increasing bitterness, that at length Channing, peaceable as he was, felt bound to strike a telling blow in return. The opportunity to do so came in 1819...</i><br /><br />The unitarians started their own denomination, and by 1850 or so were no longer recognizably Christian, having made "free thinking" the church's central tenet. Benjamin Rush would scarcely have recognized them.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com