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www.hoffman-info.com/puritan1.html
from the article:
"While we like to speak of the "barbarity" and "sadism"of Puritan punishments,
such as being put into the stocks for public humiliation, this was an early New
England attempt to avoid using imprisonment for punishment"
Actually, this was relatively minor compared to what many of us consider to be
the defining characteristic of the Puritans...their policy of executing
religious dissenters and the establishment of such a harsh religious law as to
make Islamic Sharia seem kind and benevolent.
The Puritans were the Taliban of their day. No amount of anti-American
apologetics by their supporters will show otherwise.
Rich Goranson, Amherst, NY, USA (aa#MCMXCIX, a-vet#1)
EAC Department of Applied Rattan Use
"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which
leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy." - Robert Anton
Wilson
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