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Those who attempt to distort our religion with strange rites you should hate and punish, not only for the sake of the gods … but also because such people, by bringing in new divinities, persuade many folks to adopt foreign practices, which lead to conspiracies, revolts, and factions, which are entirely unsuitable for monarch".
Pages in category "Lists of people associated with religion" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It has been suggested that this article be split into articles titled Lists of people by religion and Lists of people by ideology. ( discuss ) ( July 2021 ) These are articles that list people of a particular religious or political belief or other worldview .
A Catholic by the name of William Douglass, when elected a representative from Bergen County, was excluded from the General Assembly of 1668 because of his religious convictions. In 1691 the New York Assembly passed the first anti-Catholic enactment, which was followed by laws strongly opposed to Catholics and their beliefs both in New York and ...
This degree of diversity tolerated within a particular church is described as ecclesiastical tolerance, [47] and is one form of religious toleration. However, when people nowadays speak of religious tolerance, they most often mean civil tolerance, which refers to the degree of religious diversity that is tolerated within the state.
There were religious wars and, in some countries though not in others, eruptions of sectarian hatred such as the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, part of the French Wars of Religion. Militant anti-Protestantism originated in a reaction by states and societies alarmed at the spread of Protestantism following the Protestant Reformation of ...
Clyde is a town in Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. The 2010 census recorded the population at 1,223 people. The 2010 census recorded the population at 1,223 people. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was the first law in North America requiring religious tolerance for Christians.It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City in St. Mary's County, Maryland.