Tuesday, April 26, 2011

John Winthrop

I personal think that freedom of religion is great and wonderful thing. Without it I feel that there would be a lot of uncontrolled chaos between religion factions like violent protesting religious groups and the destruction of religious property. With freedom of religion we are forced to deal with each other and learn about each other. I believe this has helped our society and made us more tolerant of other religions and idealism and thous better people as a whole. For instance my sister is a bible thumbing christens and I am a god doubting Ignosticism and we get along just fine.

I reached John Winthrop and found out that he was a very important puritan. He was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for 12 terms but then he was banished from the colony for having a fight with Roger William.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwinthrop.htm

10 comments:

  1. I think you have a good point here. I also believe by having freedom of religion, that we have to learn to accept who people are for them and not for anything else.

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  2. I did my research on John Winthrop too and one of the main things I learned about him was probably that he served 12 times as the governor

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  3. I feel like there is some chaos between religious factions in today's world but it could be worse. We see on the news often times of this in other countries and there are people who just won't take another religion into question.

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  4. excellent point, if we didnt have the fredom of religion i believe we would've had religional war fairs constatntly.

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  5. you have a valid point here, however i do not believe that people will learn about different religions, just because they are there. i'm a christian and i know very little of other religions...

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  6. i totaaly agree with you, because if there was no freedom of religion. There will be lots of problems, like people fighting each other, causing problems.

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  8. i did not know thathe got banished from his home just people he got in a fight with anther man.

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  9. Religous freedom we have here in the United States is a great thing. It allows people to practise religions that others might find weird. But Lets not forget that we do have limits to every freedom, even that of religon. Prime example would be that of the mormans in Colorado City. Not every religion can be practice, so we have religious tolerence, but not true freedom.

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  10. i aggree with you , beacause without freedom religiou i wont be here and they would be alot of fighting.

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