bruce…good point; the terminology doesn’t always fit the object of discussion. American congregationists perfected communal voting for legal administration and representation, and as such were quite progressive for the time…but by Lib standards the Congregationalists and Quakers were “backwards”. In the end we are arguing against much prejudice, and this also may explain the pointed rhetoric. I believe there are alot of “progressives” who don’t give credit to the Christian Era giants who preceded them and their supposed “advancements” of culture and “science”. And at the same time they discount the horrors and injustices of their humanist doctrine.
bruce…good point; the terminology doesn’t always fit the object of discussion. American congregationists perfected communal voting for legal administration and representation, and as such were quite progressive for the time…but by Lib standards the Congregationalists and Quakers were “backwards”. In the end we are arguing against much prejudice, and this also may explain the pointed rhetoric. I believe there are alot of “progressives” who don’t give credit to the Christian Era giants who preceded them and their supposed “advancements” of culture and “science”. And at the same time they discount the horrors and injustices of their humanist doctrine.