>Like, there wasn't this "*everyone* want's to be free of England" >mentality, right? Wasn't it sorta a minority that even pushed the >revolution through, so to speak?
Yeah, smugglers mostly. A few rich white guys who didn't want to pay taxes (some things never change). Probably one or two guys who just had massive problems with authority. >The Catholic church was already crazy powerful, all over the world. >Had a real nice racket going for a bit, IMHO. The Catholic church remained crazy powerful up until Napoleon took the Pope prisoner. >And heck, churches in general were more powerful back then. I'm >pretty sure for a while you *had* to pay a certain amount of money to >your local church, and *had* to go to church on Sunday. I'm not sure if that was true in the 1700s, but it was true in the middle ages. >Quite a bit of the hate that is preached in this world comes from >Religion. I hate hate. ;) Quite a bit of hate is preached towards Religion to, most of it undeserved. For instance I've been called all kinds of nasty names because of Phelps and his ilk despite the fact that I have basically nothing in common with the man ideologically speaking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320972 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
