Klarinet Archive - Posting 000748.txt from 2004/11

From: "Dee D. Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:01:39 -0500


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From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:55 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving

>
> > > > I thought the Pilgrims were thankful to get away from Europe (all
the
> > wars
> > > > and repression) and especially away from England!!??
> > > > Abe
> > >
> > >
> > >Abe,
> > >
> > >And what kind of "repression" would that be?
> >
> > Religious repression, mostly. They wanted to be free to practice their
> > own
> > religion and not be forced to belong to the Church of England. It is
most
> > ironic that the US government today, having abandoned the Constitutional
> > provision that it should "make no law regarding the establishment of
> > religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" should lately be
> > throwing roadblocks in the way of any attempt to publicly acknowledge
God
> > at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill Hausmann
> >
> > If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
> >
>
>
> And Bill....
>
> Was the religious repression exclusive to England?
>
> Forest Aten

No it was not but some countries were worse than others. The Pilgrims
originally went to what is now the Netherlands to escape religious
persecution. They did find religious tolerance there. However, they left
there as they did not want their children growing up to speak Dutch and
thinking of themselves as Dutchmen.

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