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chaotic-history · 1 year

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This one history book (basically apush review book...) is being such a bitch to Roger Williams for literally no reason.

Ma'am I believe the "imaged impurities" you're referring to are called religious persecution and the lack of seperation of church and state, along with, oh idk, murdering natives, and I can assure you those were all very real and also things that deserve to be "denounced in extreme terms".

Anyway fuck this and also fuck the fact that no one recognises Williams' contributions? I don't think my US history class even mentioned him. Anyway if you don't know who he is, he was writing in demand of seperation of church and state and consent of the governed in damn near those exact words while John Locke was 12, and in 1636 he established in Providence a democratic society based on the idea that the power comes from people, not from God, with complete religious toleration for *any* religion or lack thereof, where church and state were strictly seperate, and Williams firmly believed throughout his entire life that the Native Americans were in every way equal to the Europeans.

#full Powre and Authority to Governe & rule themselves ... by such a form of Civil Government as by voluntary consent of all or the greater #-Part of them shall find most suteable.#roger williams #one of the things that got him exiled from massachusetts was saying they should buy the land from the natives rather than steal it #us history #'oh tj invented the phrase seperation of church and state' grrr no he did not #“the hedge or wall of seperation between the Garden of the Church and the Wildernes of the World”#- the charter for Providence

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