Bridges, Arches, Columns, Tunnels and Walls

San Miguel Mission, Sante Fe

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@vonny,

That is such a beautiful church, I love that color, adobe yellow/orange. Smile

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@vonny,

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I visited this church and stood outside.

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The brick-faced Engelse Kerk was the Beguine church until 1607, when it became Anglican. The Pilgrims (strict Protestants fleeing persecution in England), stopped here in tolerant Amsterdam and prayed in this church before the Mayflower carried them to religious freedom in America.

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Wall of Death

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@RexRed,

RexRed wrote:

The Pilgrims (strict Protestants fleeing persecution in England), stopped here in tolerant Amsterdam and prayed in this church before the Mayflower carried them to religious freedom in America.

They weren't fleeing persecution, they were fleeing tolerance. England didn't persecute Catholics enough for their tastes.

Quote:

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views. Their “city upon a hill” was a theocracy that brooked no dissent, religious or political.

The most famous dissidents within the Puritan community, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, were banished following disagreements over theology and policy. From Puritan Boston’s earliest days, Catholics (“Papists”) were anathema and were banned from the colonies, along with other non-Puritans. Four Quakers were hanged in Boston between 1659 and 1661 for persistently returning to the city to stand up for their beliefs.

Throughout the colonial era, Anglo-American antipathy toward Catholics—especially French and Spanish Catholics—was pronounced and often reflected in the sermons of such famous clerics as Cotton Mather and in statutes that discriminated against Catholics in matters of property and voting. Anti-Catholic feelings even contributed to the revolutionary mood in America after King George III extended an olive branch to French Catholics in Canada with the Quebec Act of 1774, which recognized their religion.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/?page=2

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

RexRed wrote:
The Pilgrims (strict Protestants fleeing persecution in England), stopped here in tolerant Amsterdam and prayed in this church before the Mayflower carried them to religious freedom in America.

They weren't fleeing persecution, they were fleeing tolerance. England didn't persecute Catholics enough for their tastes.

Besides that, the description is wrong, because the Beguine's church was taken away from them by the (then) Protestant city government and given to the English Protestants, who had left Leiden "because it was too libertine". [You can still see where they lived, opposite the Saint Peterskerk. - Interesting reading of their issues of Calvinism versus Arminianism, siding with the Calvinists against the Remonstrants as well.]

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@izzythepush,

I am not doubting you but it does not make sense because the Dutch were even more liberal than the English. Why would the Pilgrims flee the liberal English for a more liberal Dutch? Liberal to whose standards I guess is the question. Smile

We know they were all quite puritanical to today's standards.

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@RexRed,

RexRed wrote:

I am not doubting you but it does not make sense because the Dutch were even more liberal than the English. Why would the Pilgrims flee the liberal English for a more liberal Dutch?

They fled from England, because they believed that in Leiden their religious views were tolerated. They fled from Leiden to Amsterdam, because it was too liberal there. And they fled from Amsterdam due to economic difficulties and because they feared a Spanish Catholic invasion.

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@RexRed,

Basically they wanted to give Catholics a far harder time than most English. As Walt has pointed out because the Dutch were in danger of fighting the Spanish, and ultimately went to war with Spain they were more receptive to Catholic bashing.

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@izzythepush,

I find it all terrible fighting over the trinity regardless of which theological side one stands upon.

The trinity is nothing but an excuse to lean towards violence.

Violence and intolerance from either side negates the "live love" message of the Gospels, if there actually is one.

It is idolatry to call a man god and it is blasphemy to deny the divinity of Christ either way, both sides lose.

And really, what difference does it make? NONE.

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@Walter Hinteler,

Walter, what is your new hat?
Shall you hold a bridge with those ears?

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Old bridge over Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Workers install safety netting on a new footbridge above the Blue Nile River in the central highlands of Ethiopia. The bridge replaces a stone structure built in 1640.

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Picture of a man standing in the tunnel found under ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I's tomb.

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Bridge over the gorge at Watkins Glen State Park. located outside the village of Watkins Glen, New York, south of Seneca Lake in Schuyler County in the Finger Lakes region.

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/watkins-glen-gorge-rainbow-bridge-new-york.jpg

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I saw in the News, there is an exhibition of (pictures of) British lighthouses on somewhere at the moment, but I forget where it is.

Maybe Walter has some knowledge of this.

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@McTag,

Is this it?

500 Years of Trinity House exhibition opens at the National Maritime Museum

Guiding Lights: 500 years of Trinity House and safety at sea.

On 15 April the Master of Trinity House, HRH The Princess Royal, formally opened the new exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, titled ‘Guiding Lights: 500 years of Trinity House and safety at sea’. The exhibition is a fantastic showcase highlighting the history and modern relevance of Trinity House as a charity, a general lighthouse authority and a deep sea pilotage authority today, and its many historical functions.

“Guiding Lights showcases centuries of invaluable work by the Corporation of Trinity House to help sailors navigate safely at sea, preventing countless shipwrecks and immense loss of life.

Marking the 500th anniversary of Trinity House, the gallery displays 70 rarely seen objects from Trinity House and the Museum’s own collection, telling stories of the heroic and the extraordinary from throughout the organisation’s history, and of human fortitude in the face of the immense power of the sea.

The history of Britain’s lighthouses is told through intricate models, dramatic film and the personal effects of lighthouse keepers. Lightvessels, buoys and yachts are illustrated through rarely-seen, beautiful watercolour sketches by accomplished marine artist William Lionel Wyllie. Tales of personal bravery include that of lighthouse keeper’s daughter and plucky heroine Grace Darling.”

This wonderful exhibition is open from 16 April 2014 until 4 January 2016, open daily 10.00-17.00, and is suitable for all ages and backgrounds.

Entry is free to all!

More information for visitors can be found at the Royal Museums Greenwich website or by telephoning 020 8312 6565.

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