![]() ![]() Barry tells the story with passion and an eye for fine detail. Forced worship "stinks in God's nostrils," he wrote. Joe Nocera, The New York Times 'In Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul, New York Times bestselling author John M. He objected to the way in which the colonial government legislated what he felt was properly God's to dictate. ![]() Williams agreed with the Massachusetts governors on most points of theology. Roger Williams, an early resident of Massachusetts who would go on to found the colony of Rhode Island, was uneasy about forced conformity to the Puritan mold, though not because he didn't like the mold. Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul audiobook (Unabridged) &mid Church, State, and the Birth. Massachusetts spurned "heathenish" practices to such a degree that it stopped using names for the days of the week, referring to them only by numbers. The town of Hartford required its residents to rise from bed at the same hour in the morning. In England, laws against adultery were not enforced in New England, adulterers might be executed, or whipped and forced to wear scarlet letters. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of Roger Williams, who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The Calvinist pilgrims who founded the New England colonies had rebelled against England by leaving it, but they were certainly not rebels against a firm social order or against the idea of authority itself. ![]()
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