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Should we see the Puritans as more hypocritical for their actions, or tyrannical? I think the latter. I see the entire English Puritan/Anglican/Catholic back-and-forth as much more of a battle for religious supremacy, not a battle for political/religious freedoms. Certainly the Puritans never saw Roger Williams' ideas of religious freedom as worth a grain of salt. I don't think it's til Locke that it's an idea that is taken seriously, politically.
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