Posted on 06/01/2021 5:51:48 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston on this date in 1660 — the most famous of that city’s four “Quaker martyrs”.
By the time of her last ordeal, Dyer already had a quarter century-old reputation for religious misbehavior in the New World.
She’d ditched England with her husband in 1635, part of that decade’s great outmigration of Puritan dissidents — “A Comely Grave Woman, and of a goodly Personage, and one of a good Report, having a husband of an Estate, fearing the Lord, and a Mother of Children,” according to an admiring account. Opinions varied: the colony’s governor found her “very censorious and troublesome, (she being of a very proud spirit, and much addicted to revelations).”
She brought with her a proclivity for the heretical: in Massachusetts, where the Puritan majority delivered the persecuting, Mary quickly fell foul of right-thinking folk by backing Anne Hutchinson in a theological controversy.* When Hutchinson was convicted by a church trial and banished, Mary Dyer cinematically walked hand-in-hand with her out of church. On top of everything else, she was known to have stillborne a deformed monstrosity (“a woman, a fish, a bird, & a beast all woven together”) which was the kind of thing these people understood as deadly serious....
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How many millions have been put to death for differences of religion over several thousand years?
Bkmk
They fled religious persecution only to be persecuted here.
Proud descendant of Roger Williams.
How many millions have been put to death for differences of religion over several thousand years?
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It’s hard to tell, but the overall number is probably much less than the number of people killed in wars between tribes, clans, nations, and empires for land land.
Honestly, if you just add up all the people in history who have been murdered for personal reasons (robbery, adultery, personal hatred, greed), that almost certainly dwarfs the number killed over religious differences.
Yes, but she kept going back to Massachusetts when she would have been safe elsewhere. A sad story, but she seemed intent on martyrdom.
Religion is irrelevant. Substitute any difference in conflict and there you may find pretext.
It’s all about DOMINANCE. Go to any Dog Park and see the primitive instinct played out in animals, often leading to aggressive behavior.
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