[Magdalen] Huguenot Heritage.

[Jay Weigel]

I have no particular love for stiff-necked religionists of any stripe,
which is one reason I don't have as much admiration as I once did for my
first immigrant ancestor who came to these shores. At one time I rather
admired his courage for standing up for his beliefs in defiance of his
father, but now he strikes me as a rather stiff-necked and humorless type.
I suspect the truth lies somewhere between.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 1/1/2015 3:33:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> sally.davies at gmail.com writes:
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> . It's  sadly ironic that a
> people with so much reason to celebrate religious  freedom eventually made
> it their business to oppress others. Franschhoek  >>>>
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> The Huguenots made themselves easy to loath by the majority
> French with their penchant for iconoclasm.  They were experts at
> smashing everything they didn't like, especially Catholic churches.
> The medieval cathedral at Orleans, France was literally razed by
> Huguenots, and there had to be built a completely new church in
> the nineteenth century.
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> David S.
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