To be fair, Catholic Maryland’s 1648 Act of Toleration is an important, if often neglected, step on the road to full religious liberty. (And although it only encompassed Christians, the only Jew ever arrested for blasphemy [having been tricked into doing so] was amnestied out the back door without ever having been tried and lived the rest of his life in Maryland.)
Absolutely! I’m sure it was at least partially because Maryland was never homogeneously Catholic, but her government was really quite enlightened under the original Catholic dispensation. (Somewhere around here I have a paper I wrote in grad school on Maryland as a theater of the English Civil War.)
To be fair, Catholic Maryland’s 1648 Act of Toleration is an important, if often neglected, step on the road to full religious liberty. (And although it only encompassed Christians, the only Jew ever arrested for blasphemy [having been tricked into doing so] was amnestied out the back door without ever having been tried and lived the rest of his life in Maryland.)
Yes! I was saving that little gem for Thursday, but that's okay, it's good to mention it as often as possible.
If you think that Catholics are just hard-wired for authoritarian rule, look at Colonial Maryland!
Absolutely! I’m sure it was at least partially because Maryland was never homogeneously Catholic, but her government was really quite enlightened under the original Catholic dispensation. (Somewhere around here I have a paper I wrote in grad school on Maryland as a theater of the English Civil War.)