[MarkBsnr]

I would have expected Reggie to have had the education to get this, but no matter.

http://undergod.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=69 has the timeline for state sponsored religion for the colonies:

Most of these were varieties of Calvinist religions. If you wish, please go and take a look. I'm sorry that your education is as sorry as it is. I didn't get this from any Catholic school. Where I come from, this, along with many other elementary facts, is a matter of fact education. I'm surprised that you guys learned how to sign your names, with this level of knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religion_in_the_United_States, although I hate to admit it, touches somewhat accurately on this subject. Who do you guys think that Cotton Mather represented? The local homeboys?

[MarkBsnr]

Ping to post.

[metmom]

Post 567:”But killing and torture of those who did not subscribe to the particular Protestant brand of each colony were, until the federal government quelled it. Massachusetts was a particularly barbaric colony, although several others vied for its level of barbarism. Where did you guys get your education? Have you no idea of what was actually done in history or do you have the usual American glaze eyed deer in the headlights stare when it comes to actual reality? “

So.... where’s all the killing and torture? Those links don’t show the feds stepping in to stop it. How’d this get off topic to a survey of the religious preferences of the individual states or colonies?

[OLD REGGIE]

I would have expected Reggie to have had the education to get this, but no matter.

No, no, no. Old Reggie is well aware of the "State Religion" of the colonies.

What I am waiting for is documentation of the numerous "murders" due to the State Religions.

Your "education" has apparently convinced you of the "murders" committed by these State Religions. Prove it.

[RnMomof7]

One of the reasons that Calvinists came here and were so active in the founding of colonies and they led the revolutionary war, and the founding of America and the constitution is they had lived under and fled the tyranny of Rome

This engraving depicts the execution of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554.