God, Government and Roger Williams' Big Idea- Smithsonian

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Flynn and these evanpedicals better be careful what they ask for.


"Even the most bitter opponents of Roger Williams recognized in him that combination of charm, confidence and intensity a later age would call charisma. They did not regard such traits as assets, however, for those traits only made the preacher more dangerous in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. With someone like him, they could not compromise.

For his part, Williams was not about to compromise, either, despite his benevolent intelligence and Christian charity. The error, he believed, was not his, and when convinced he was right he backed away from no one."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/god-government-and-roger-williams-big-idea-6291280/