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Empty Altars: American Saints in a Cynical Age (#179)
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The Puritans and Theocracy
In the mid-1600s Puritans set up what they think is The purer perfect society. They have completely stark environments No christmas nothing, you know, nothing popish and so out of that creates this conflict where roger williams presses them towards a different horizon of faith. He just pushes that idol right over the edge andThey hate him for it And so he gets sent out exiled To Rhode Island. So I think that's part of what we're doing But you just described it perfectly and there's a name That we can put it book to that uh from the mid- 1600s Because that's the exact story.
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