"the Slothropite heresy" (Re: Religion

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> > What kind of Christian was W. Slothrop?
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>He was a Christian who preached a somewhat more compassionate and 
>democratic
>form of Christianity than that which prevailed amongst the political regime
>of that time, and who was thus regarded as a "heretic" by the Elect in
>"Massachussetts Bay Colony" (i.e. the "inherently undemocratic" 
>nation-state
>wherein "the rulers [had] create[d] the church they need[ed]".)

So he was a more Democratic Christian. More Compassionate.
How does this fit with Eric's definition of
a Christian? Well he was "Connected" or he did have "Connections" and
although he was not officially ordained that did not
prevent him from climbing the hierarchy.

After he was tossed out of the MBC, he gave consideration
to joining the Antinomians in Rhode Island, but he wasn't
too keen on them either. Was he interested in a
Christianity unlike that in MBC or RI? Or England?
He did leave England to come to the MBC.
His Christianity seems to be his own invention. It is
not, as some have argued and you seem to be
suggesting by attributing that third rhetorical
speculation not only to W. Slothrop but to the Author of
GR, Gnostic or of the Gnostic sect Cainite.  Eric seemed to be suggesting 
this as well when he said that Judas was the scape goat and Jesus the 
fetish. W. Slothrop's heresy is like no other.
It is only found in GR and it involves, even though it was
a little early for Isac Newton, "feelings about action and
reaction, "a feeling that everything in the Creation
has its equal and opposite counterpart." Newton's treatise on gravitation, 
was presented in Principia Mathematica (1687).

Cheers,

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