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The objection is that the people who left Europe for the new world weren't "freedom maximalists escaping theocracies"
by andrepd 3y ago
The objection is that the people who left Europe for the new world weren't "freedom maximalists escaping theocracies"
- FredPret 3y agoWell, pick up a history book, and you'll see lots of people escaped religious persecution in Europe. They wanted to practice their religion / lack thereof, thus were freedom-seeking. They were willing to brave an Atlantic crossing in small wooden ships and build brand-new lives rather than put up with curtailed freedoms; hence "maximalists". And when you mix church and state, or when the state kowtows to the church by persecuting its enemies, you have at least a partial theocracy.