2007-09-21 10:42:11 · 4 answers · asked by determined000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Act granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists i.e., Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists, Congregationalists and Quakers, but not to Catholics. It allowed Nonconformists their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers, subject to acceptance of certain oaths of allegiance. It deliberately did not apply to Catholics and Unitarians and continued the existing social and political disabilities for dissenters, including their exclusion from political office and also from universities.
2007-09-21 10:45:45 · answer #1 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These laws or ordinances are physical. God and Christianity is spiritual. The two are far separated. We cannot use the constitution to go to heaven nor can we use the Bible to govern the country. They are not combined and must be kept separate. This is not to say a person in a country can be ungodly because The Bible is not ruling the country, but they are not the same. One controls your physical actions while the other is over the spiritual aspect of your life.
In other words, no acts or laws have any bearing on Christian lives spiritually. I say that because some people go to the Constitution to justify their Christianity or lack of it because they do not know it is not the Bible. It does not work.
2007-09-21 17:56:57 · answer #2 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Calverts, who founded Maryland, needed to attract settlers to make the colonial venture profitable. In order to protect the Catholics from the immigrating Puritans and Protestants, the Calverts supported the Act Concerning Religion. The Act allowed freedom of worship for all Christians in Maryland
2007-09-21 17:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
"Toleration" is not a real word -- it's "Tolerance" !!!!!!!
2007-09-21 17:59:21 · answer #4 · answered by James Melton 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋