[Dialogue] Rick Santorum is channeling the Calvinist John Winthrop

[Ed Feldmanis]

Steve,

It is a cyclical story when consciousness is impaired. What others did to
me I inculcate and then in return I do to others.  This is a well-known
pattern.

Ed

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:57 AM, steve har <stevehar11201 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting Breakfast-News Conversation:
> Rick Santorum is channeling John Winthrop...
> " and the other Puritans who first came to Massachusetts. Puritans fled to
> America in the 1600s because they were being persecuted in England for
> their hard-edged, Calvinist beliefs, and their rejection of the Anglican
> Church. Having one’s ears cut off for having deviationist religious beliefs
> was one of the lesser punishments Puritans suffered; being locked up in the
> Tower of London, where death was a near certainty, was not uncommon.
>
> Yet Winthrop and the other Puritans did not arrive on the shores of
> Massachusetts hungering for religious freedom. Rather, Winthrop’s “City on
> a Hill”. The "City on the Hill" was not a "Secular City" it meant to be
> an authoritative and theocentric state. Winthrop’s core idea — “that the
> state must enforce God’s laws,”
> NYTimes Joe Nocera:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/opinion/nocera-a-revolutionary-idea.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
>
> --
> Steve Harrington
>
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