When Banished, Just Found Rhode Island...!

I would say this guy had the right idea!

Maybe we should see if we can find more people with the same mindset, ya think?

Oct 9, 1635:

Rhode Island founder banished from Massachusetts

Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land.

After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God, Williams named the community "Providence."

Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson--like Williams, she had been exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons--some of the first Jews to settle in North America, and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first dictionary of Native-American languages.

You have to admit, this was a very busy man! Just shows what one person can do when, with a few of his friends, gets off his backside and chooses to actually take action!

I'm thinking we should be following his example! If we don't like the way things are...we should change them!We can, we should, and we will!

Coffee on the patio? Maybe we can make some plans...!