episode 81: Colin Saxton, Quakers, & theocracy

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Together, Craig and Colin discuss how even those traditions (Craig’s Mennonite church, and Colin’s Friends meetings) can be lured into Christian Nationalism. Additionally, we spend some time discussing the experience of early Quakers in colonial America and execution of the “Boston Martyrs,” by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. From 1659-1661, the theocratic colony executed Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson, Mary Dyer, and William Leddra for their alternative beliefs.

This history exemplifies one of the false promises of “Christian” nationalism, that is, who’s definition of Christian will become the official orthodoxy. In a small way, the experience of the Boston Martyrs is a prequel, or a forecast, of Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale.

Follow Colin Saxton at: https://walkingintheway.blog/ and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colinb.saxton

Our transition music this week comes from Idaho’s own, Paul Revere and the Raiders rendition of, Eve of Destruction.