On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsBanished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. He conducted a lifelong debate over religious freedom with distinguished figures of the seventeenth century, including Puritan minister John Cotton, Massachusetts governor John Endicott, and the English Parliament. |
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... Antichrist , and they assumed that Native Ameri- cans worshipped the devil . In fact , Williams's intolerance was too radical even for his fellow Puritans , for he was sure that most of his brethren in the Church of England were going ...
... Antichrist , and assumed with his Puritan colleagues that many of the Native Americans ' religious rituals were devil worship . While he considered all these religions false and his own Puritan faith true , he none- theless defended ...
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