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Haggard Celine

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27. I absolutely agree with that.
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 09:29 AM
Nov 2021

If Americans had a better understanding of the Puritans and their mission here, it would help them spot current groups who have similar ideologies, like the Dominionists we are dealing with today.

We have a large number of people in the U.S. today who would love to establish a theocracy and purge the unbelievers. They mostly operate under the radar in our politics, but I think that needs to change.

Dominionists and their sympathizers have been slowly gaining power in our government for years, and it's past time for the rest of us to raise the alarm and alert everyone about what they're doing and what their plans are. Many of them are ultra-conservative Catholics as well as various RW Protestant sects.

It would be a lot easier to explain what these people are doing if our people had a more complete knowledge of our history. Now would be a good time to start teaching them. It might already be too late.

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Good one, almost all of these stories about kids going home and saying they are being taught Eliot Rosewater Nov 2021 #1
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This nt cinematicdiversions Nov 2021 #11
But somebody from outside does make us pay for them . . . hatrack Nov 2021 #17
That's when you say, 'honey, we're Calvinists, so Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #7
I suppose that Calvinists don't have missionaries. LastDemocratInSC Nov 2021 #10
The hardcore ones don't. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #12
All of the New England Puritans were Calvinists. wnylib Nov 2021 #20
Thanks for the information about the Puritans. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #23
My history classes didn't cover wnylib Nov 2021 #26
I absolutely agree with that. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #27
Totally agree about the Dominionists. wnylib Nov 2021 #28
My sister married into the Church of Christ Wednesdays Nov 2021 #29
Thanks, that's an idea I haven't heard. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #30
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that is good. barbtries Nov 2021 #14
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Jean Calvin was more or less the ayatollah of Geneva Klaralven Nov 2021 #25
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