MDMD Dixon's nonviolence (forget about it)

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 11 11:41:03 CST 2002


How can two educated men, interested in history/religion not remember
what Charles II did? 

In England and in Ireland the Presbyterians and the Established Church,
made determined efforts, through the aid of the civil power, to crush
the Quakers. From the detailed record which the Friends, in imitation of
the primitive Christians, kept of the sufferings of their brethren, we
gather that during the reign of Charles II, 13,562 "Quakers" were
imprisoned in various parts of England, 198 were transported as
slaves to colonies and 338 died in prison or of wounds received in
violent assaults on their meetings. Some fled to America. And as Otto
said, they got their asses kicked by the Puritans. 

What else have these two forgotten? 

Judge not and Ye shall not be judged? Judge not a man by his clothes,
his look, his land, his home, his way of prayer, if he is an American?



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