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From Crimson to Puritan, the seemingly small change of name should have dramatic results. But if by some freak chance conventional religious warfare does not work, we can turn to the strategy of John Norton, who, speaking of the Quakers in the 1600s, said, "madmen acting according the their fanatick passions are to be restrained with chaines, when they cannot be restrained otherwise...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Religious Dissension Afoot | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

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