Father Nick Blaha on Nostr: I was not aware of the Puritan tenet that external, tyrannical despotism is necessary ...
I was not aware of the Puritan tenet that external, tyrannical despotism is necessary to restrain man's inherent evil.
Does that mean they came to th New World to create a righteously despotic society?
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