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   From: jtarver@sti.net   
      
   "Peter Stickney"  wrote in message   
   news:m7t5sb-vnf.ln@Mineshaft.local...   
   > In article ,   
   > "Paul"  writes:   
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   > > "John Miller"  wrote in message   
   > > news:bro5qj$nml$1@n4vu.com...   
   > >> John-Doe wrote:   
   > >> > That's not Saddam that they've arrested - he's a stand in - one of   
   > >> > SH's cousins.   
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   > >> Yo' momma...   
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   > >> John Miller   
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   > >> Majorities, of course, start with minorities.   
   > >>                 -Robert Moses   
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   > > Speaking of minorities, is it true that the Pilgrims were intolerant   
   > > religious fundamenalist zealots who where forced out of Britain because   
   of   
   > > their adherance to an extremist lifestyle?   
   >   
   > No, but that sums up teh upstart Puritans who came later.   
   > The Plymouth Pilgims, as opposed to the Massachusetts Bay Puritans,   
   > had been pretty much run out of England (To the Netherlands,   
   > aoriginally) becase they didn't want to be considered a part of teh   
   > Church of England, which was a Capital Offence at the time.  The   
   > Puritans were an ultra-conservative Fundamentalist group whose main   
   > premeise was to take over teh Church of England, and bend it to their   
   > particular use.   
      
   I don't believe that is not quite true, Peter.  The Dutch Puritans came to   
   America after the genocide of their colony Olster. (35,000 dead)  They were   
   run out of Europe, but not just one church wanted rid of them.   
      
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