Good morning. I propose to cover three things in my brief opening remarks this morning. Why me . Why now . Why are you here . Magna cartas relevance today. From an early age growing up in america, it was good king john the lion heart, bad King John Lachlan and robin hood and his merry men, not to forget maid mir yen, littlejohn, fryer tuck, henry the viii, shakespeare, costume and architecture and in music. I grew up with the belief that the sun never sets on the british empire. I collected stamps from all over the british empire. All americans knew george washington, john jay, sam adams, all the Founding Fathers were english men. Alexander hamilton was a scott born in the caribbean. As they came, so did settlers from germany, austria, hungary, polands, swiss, russians, chinese and all the countries came to the melting pot of america over the past 400 years since the founding of jamestown in 1607. My parents took me to the new york worlds fair in 1940 just seven years old to see many o
Engaged in misbehaviors and talked about those and how familiar they were. To anybody walking up and down high street on a friday or saturday night. Okay. And how they approach them, how they dealt with people, who engaged in those behaviors, and why. Why it was so important for them to bring those people back into forward if you will. If possible. If not possible, then to thank you would you please go away. Okay . So, what were going deal with today are larger problems. That are not necessarily individual behaviors, but people who are spousing ideas, and belief systems. And practice them and acting upon them. That are not just misbehaviors. But really question and shake the foundation of puritan society. That whole experiment. What happens when somebody starts to question that. What happens when people start believes and express believes. That run entirely counter to that. Because we talked about remember how important it was to them to make sure they were doing it right. Okay, accord
Entire story from the whole semester. Where we left off on monday. Monday we dealt with how the puritans approached people who engaged in misbehaviors and talked about those and how familiar they were. To anybody walking up and down high street on a friday or saturday night. Okay. And how they approach them, how they dealt with people, who engaged in those behaviors, and why. Why it was so important for them to bring those people back into forward if you will. If possible. If not possible, then to thank you would you please go away. Okay . So, what were going deal with today are larger problems. That are not necessarily individual behaviors, but people who are spousing ideas, and belief systems. And practice them and acting upon them. That are not just misbehaviors. But really question and shake the foundation of puritan society. That whole experiment. What happens when somebody starts to question that. What happens when people start believes and express believes. That run entirely cou
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Why it was so important for them to bring those people back into forward if you will. If possible. If not possible, then to thank you would you please go away. Okay . So, what were going deal with today are larger problems. That are not necessarily individual behaviors, but people who are spousing ideas, and belief systems. And practice them and acting upon them. That are not just misbehaviors. But really question and shake the foundation of puritan society. That whole experiment. What happens when somebody starts to question that. What happens when people start believes and express believes. That run entirely counter to that. Because we talked about remember how important it was to them to make sure they were doing it right. Okay, according to to their understanding of their Christian Faith. They had to do it this particular way. If they didnt do this particular way, then they were going to run the chance of being abandoned by god, right . 1o which was a horrible thing. One of the mos