Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs Quotes
With sophistry bordering on hypocrisy, tolerant New Netherland offered its inhabitants freedom to believe whatever they wanted, as long as their belief did not extend to religious exercises outside the family.
The Governor of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant, was a bigoted Protestant of the Dutch Orthodox church and did not want to allow non-Protestants into the Colony, However, he was overruled by the Directors of the Dutch West India Company which rolled the colony designed to be a money making enterprise. Jews and others were allowed to enter and become citizens, however while they could worship in any way they chose in their own homes, they could not build any places of worship of have any public prayer of other aspects of their religion. This was the hypocrisy to which Bangs refers. However, at the time, it was more liberality and tolerance than most of the Christian world.
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs, Dutch Historian, “Dutch Contribution to Religious Toleration”, Church History, September 2010
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