Toad juice. Gag and spit. May I never say words
that will taste like toad juice when someone else says them.
Some people say these words.
Perhaps you have heard some of them.
For example:
The speaker singled out members of a particular
religious faith, comparing them to dogs, serpents, dragons and vipers.
He wanted to see them banned, exiled,
imprisoned, whipped….he proclaimed they are a “leprous” people, their doctrines
as despicable as the “juice of toads.”
Who was the speaker and which religion did he
condemn?
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| Persecuted Quakers |
Want a hint?
Think late 17th century.
Think Cotton Mather, the celebrated Puritan
minister.
Think Quakers, who were widely stigmatized by
our strangely intolerant Puritan forebears.
In every history, of course.
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