Reflection #2- Roger Williams " The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience" and "The Bloody Tenet of Persecution, Made Yet More Bloody. "

Roger Williams was an American Protestant and "and the first one to protested of religious freedom and the separation of the church and the state." He found the Rhode Island and Providence colony. He disagreed with the idea of persecution and opened his colony to any type of religion. In other words, any religion was able to be practiced in his colony. In his writing " The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience," he presented the idea of separation of the church and civil matters. He basically said that the church acted in a hypocrisy way and destroyed millions of souls. It also practiced violence against people by persecuting them and their beliefs. For him, everyone was allow to practice the religion his or her wanted. His idea of the separation was because he thought that the church and the state should not be mixed up with each together. Then in 1652, he wrote The Bloody Tenet of Persecution, Made Yet More Bloody. In this book he again repeated that every man must do what his conscience tells him to do. The beliefs are the must important and trustful thing. In this article he explained that we have to do what we think is right, "fight with the spirit of love."