"blue laws", 1755

[Barbara Need]

Well, in England under Anglicanism, Nonconformists (Methodists,
Presbyterians, etc.) and Catholics had to pay a fine to worship. I
don't know the dates of this, though I think it ended some time in the
mid-1800s. Antidisestablishmentarianism has something to do with all
of that.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Ithaca

On 28 Sep 2010, at 8:38 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Garson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> all different Persuasions do ... pay our Ministers
>
> It seems to me that the above phrase bears a certain, well, *Islamic*
> cast. But, having studied the history of Christianity (read: "The One
> True Faith") during the reign of triple-tiara-edd Pope Pius XII, it
> may be the case that I've been propagandized into the erroneous belief
> that Islam permits the practice of other religions only upon payment
> of a tax.
>
> It probably goes without saying that some of my best friends are
> Muslim. Really!
>
> (I'm assuming that the above partial quotation was meant satirically.
> In this case, at least. Back in the day, the beliefs and practices of
> post-Arian, "heretical" forms of Christianity, once that the
> "Protestant Revolt" had been noted in passing, were treated somewhat
> cavalierly, to understate the case. Hence, the only thing that I
> know(?) about Puritanism is that Christmas was not a big deal to that
> faith.)

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