A Martyr for Religious Freedom: Mary Dyer (with Paul Matzko) - Portraits of Liberty

Mary Dyer left England to pursue her religious beliefs without persecution in the New World. However, once she arrived, she quickly realized the hypocrisy of the Puritan authorities, who persecuted her, even fashioning her tragic miscarriage as a "monstrous birth" in order to discredit her. Her execution, and that of many religious dissidents like her, carved out the space for the kind of religious freedom we so often take for granted today.
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[@jackmcgonegal8728]

Glad to stumble across this. Mary Barrett Dyer was my 9th-great grandmother, while Anne Hutchison was my 10th.

[@winsser3]

Glad to hear Mary Dyer's story told. Unfortunately, this podcast is full of errors of fact and interpretation. Anne Hutchinson endured two trials, one civil and one ecclesiastical. At the end of her church trial, Governor Winthrop cut to the root of the matter: that her error was her belief in and promotion of on-going revelation. If revelation was on-going, then Hutchinson could claim authority that superseded that of the ministers and even that of the bible. And on-going revelation was central to the Quakers, and thus anathema to conservative puritans. Regarding toleration, the puritans were much against it, as they saw it as a license to err and sin. Those early Quakers were also not particularly tolerant, holding catholics, anglicans, congregationalists, baptists, and most others in error and opposition. Dyer's challenge of the anti-Quaker laws was not to seek broad toleration (no favors intended for baptists), but to gain a public space for Quakers to practice their own beliefs in New England. After Massachusetts hanged four Quakers between 1659 and 1661, the newly restored King Charles intervened--not because he was sympathetic to Quakers, but because he wanted to rein in a maverick colony that disregarded English law and royal authority. For more, see my book on Mary Dyer.

[@Wheelstrongmom]

Mary was also let go the first time after they hung her two friends. The second time she came back they got her

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

www.history.com/news/pilgrims-puritans-differences The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. Wikipedia Damn, something new every day! But, no, I don't think "capitalist" started out as an epithet: it was a simple distinction. The opposite of "capitalist" was "industrialist." 😂 Honest!