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Religious freedom in America and the world: commentary on "religious conscience in colonial New England".(response to article by Robert T. Miller in this issue, p. 661)
There is much with which to agree in Miller's article. Indeed we find it insightful, and strongly concur with his final sentence:
long before Europe had shaken loose her shackles of coerced religious conformity, the development of a fresh and more wholesome conscience brought forth by the end of the colonial period a wider freedom of religion, even in New England, than had been achieved anywhere in the Old World (p. 675).
More will be said on our concurrence with this view momentarily. How America got to that "fresh and more wholesome" religious-political "conscience," however, is another matter, and on that score, we dissent from Miller ...
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