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Posted by Hans-Joachim on April 23, 19101 at 09:31:39:
In Reply to: Cotton Mather's evil legacy posted by ray a. ose on April 02, 19101 at 00:35:05:
Your stand before us upon your Native Americans platform speaking of devil identification and wicked self-rightousness of the Puritan faith and peoples. Truly, you must either speak from your own extensive research and scholarly journal writings, or else you hide behind your emails. Speak clearly to us in public and see what restraints are lifted from the New Englanders of America. For I tell you now that the Puritan faith, fellowship, and lineage to the New Englanders of today is stronger still thanks to my ancestors of the period who prayed each day for Jesus, God, and fellow man. Cotton Mather led us to resolve that no King shall dictate how, when, or where we shall worship God. New England gave us that world to worship God in our own ways. Cotton Mather prepared our minds and souls for God's work ahead.
: The treatment of the Native Americans by the so designated influential "man of God" more likely suggests he was a man of the devil....such evil can only be perpetrated by him whose conscience is so saturated with wicked self righteousness that the spirit of love and compion we are enjoined to practice by the Christian Faith is totally lost in that greatest of all evils....presuming to know the mind of God.