William Bradford Quotes
[The apparent extensive sinning] is not more evils in this kind, nor nothing near so many by proportion, as in other places; but they are here more discovered and seen, and made publick by due search, inquisition, and due punishment; for the churches looke narrowly to their members, and the magistrates over all, more strictly than in other places.
William Bradford, 1590-1657, Pilgrim Father & Governor of Plymouth Colony, History of Plymouth Plantation
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strict and intrusive law enforcement (See {595406})
Weyrich and many other extreme religious conservatives are often loose with legal and political facts. Actually President Clinton was impeached by the Republican Controlled House of Representatives, but was acquitted by the Senate which decided that he was not guilty of what his political enemies had accused him of or those things were not of sufficient import to warrant impeachment. What Weyrich probably meant was that if there had been a moral majority in America, Clinton would have been convicted and removed from office. Ironically, the Republican Speaker of the House which impeached Clinton had been Newt Gingrich, who abandoned his first wife and was having an affair with a staff member. Livingston who was then elected speaker of the House also was committing adultery as were many in the group who found Clinton morally wanting for his sexual activity with am intern and his attempted coverup. They too, tried to cover up their scandalous behavior.
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Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
This verse has been one of the bases of Muslim theocratic states like Iran’s claim to legitimacy. The word “govern” is sometimes translated as “judge.” In the context of the 6th century, there were no separation of powers as we know them and judging, governing and legislating were melded.
For those who doubt that there was intended a rigid separation between church and state, they have but to contemplate this passage. However, at about the same time, the State of South Carolina moved in its constitution in an opposite direction. See {612573}. When the framers of the Constitution met in 1787 in Philadelphia the separation of church and state issue was not really resolved and awaited the Bill of Rights where the separatists won out.
Cyprian was the leader of the Christian Church in Africa. His non-authoritarian style was a radical departure from then civil and religious organizational style. Jews had moved back and forth between Congregational and authoritarian religious organization before, Cyprian’s democratic approach was short lived as the Catholic Church structure evolved emulating, and contesting with, civil authoritarianism. Cyprian’s approach presaged the Christian Congregational development that became the basis of most early American Christian churches.
- Born: March 19, 1590
- Died: May 9, 1657
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William Bradford was an English Puritan separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal Of Plymouth Plantation covered the years from 1620 to 1646 in Plymouth.
