[Candor7]

He thought liberty a religion and mere fanatacism. He had not yet understood that it is the basic nature of all human beings to be free, living in Liberty. People back then did not know that there was a way to live beyong hierarchy or submission to a king. The posibility had not ocurred to them
and so the liberty movement of 1776 was “fanaticism.”

That soldier would make a good democrat, LOL.

[21twelve]

I moved that quote onto my home page. Amazing how foreign the idea of Liberty was at the time. Of course our Founding Fathers, if they saw us now would no doubt yell at us for forsaking many of our Liberties. And in the future our leaders may look back on the liberties we still enjoy and view them as “fanaticism” (”How quaint - they were allowed to read whatever they wanted to and they owned guns and automobiles”). My screen name is based on the RUSH album that envisions a future ruled by a Solar Federation that controls everything in the year 2112.

I had to look into the history of the Huegonot wars in France. Pretty much a civil war with the Huegonots (Calvinist Protestants) wanting their own territory from Catholic France (late 1500’s).

While the Catholics did prevail, the Protestants did gain some rights and were protected under law.