Thomas Aldam Quotes
So shall thy government be rent from thee and thy house.
Fox, the Quaker founder, dispatched Aldam to petition Oliver Cromwell for relief of the persecution of the Quakers. Cromwell at first maintained that he was unaware of these organized governmental persecutions so Aldam and another Quaker, Anthony Pearson, collected the writs of many Quakers who were in Jail. Aldam returned and presented these to Cromwell who, having his own political difficulties choose not to get involved as a substantial part of his political support saw Quakers as heretics. Aldam then removed his hat and rendered it into pieces uttering the quotation which might have been interpreted as a curse. Quakers had a concept of—see {611244} for another—“specific fore-seeing” which others might call prophesy. Shortly thereafter Cromwell was deposed.
Thomas Aldam, *-1660, English Quaker Leader, Prophetic warning to Oliver Cromwell, Quoted in George Fox, Autobiography
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This was taken by some as prophesy or what Quakers refer to as “specific fore-seeing.”
Disraeli was the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
This is the kind of search and seizure to determine who was practicing which religion with which out Founding Fathers were very much aware and which were eliminated in the Bill of Rights.
He is one of 4 Muslim Members of Parliament.
Elected at 24 as the youngest British Prime Minister. He was arguing for a motion of censure of the government of Lord North
Both Puritans and Quakers were persecuted and physically abused in England by the Anglican Church. The Puritans as soon as they became dominant in part of the American colonies began persecuting Quakers. The Quakers who were the majority in the Pennsylvania colony, however were tolerant of other religions. This history was another of the many reasons the Founding Fathers wanted no established church. A “scorpion” was a type of whip that was particularly painful.
See {633578} and {633579} to see some of the Sheik’s quotations on the subject.
This particular quotation was very damaging to Christians of the era. Voltaire was almost universally regarded as the greatest mind of Europe at the time. He was consulted by powerful monarchs and others throughout Europe. He influenced major figures of the day like Catherine the Great. Voltaire did believe in God. See {621200}.
Islam and Sharia do NOT require women to wear burkas or headscarves. The religious requirement is for women to dress modestly. The scarves and burkas are cultural customs which differ from place to place. However, in many places, the customs are so ingrained along with islam that many Muslims believe these forms of dress are required by their religion.
Beaumarchais served the French King Louis XVI as a spy and advisor on foreign affairs. He was instrumental in influencing the French King and his government to tilt in favor of the American Revolutionaries.
This was written under the name of Ragnar Redbeard. There are a few scholars who believe that it was written by Jack London, but most credit Desmond.
The Boers were the decedents of the original Dutch farmers who came to South Africa. They were uneducated, lower class emigrants from Holland who, unlike the British who came later and were primarily interested in trade, were farmers and wanted to acquire the rich South African land for permanent settlement with no place for the blacks who were emigrating from Central Africa to acquire the same land. The result was a conflict between the whites of South Africa—the Boers who wanted to own as much land as possible and wanted the Blacks to be their slaves or very low wage workers with no rights at all, and the English whose laws made the Blacks citizens with rights. When the English ended up controlling South Africa the Boers with their own Afrikaner language and culture felt that the English whites were selling them out. The lower class Boers were insulted that under the English law, they were no better than Black farmers. They wanted to separate from the English so they could totally dominate the Blacks and strived for independence which led to the Boer Wars. Although the Boers lost to the English, they bred and populated South Africa and eventually came to dominate it politically. It was the Boers—also called Afrikaners—who were the ones who introduced Apartheid and created the racist society that caused so much difficulty in the late 20th century.
Thomas Aldham or Aldam (c. 1616–1660) was an English farmer, who was prominent in spreading Quakerism in the Doncaster district. He worked hard to combat wrongful imprisonment of fellow Quakers.
