On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger WilliamsHarvard University Press, 2008 M01 31 - 288 pages Banished 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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... Light " in a person and provides moral direction . With its knowledge of natural law , reason provides a moral compass that differentiates human beings from other creatures and enables them to strive for a semblance of moral com- munity ...
... light of the rising threat of violence from the native tribes that sur- rounded them . Wasting the goodwill Williams had established as ambassa- dor to the Native Americans , Massachusetts and Connecticut leaders in the 1640s had ...
... light of their religious ties to the pope or the " mufti of Constantinople . " 40 Similarly , Locke argued that atheists could not be trusted as citizens because " promises , covenants , and oaths , which are the bonds of human society ...
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