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1 comment:
What's wrong with a bit of ranting now and again?
"The Ranters
Ranters were active from the late 1640s until the mid-1650s. They were not an organised sect, and most of our information about them comes from horrified critics. Leading Ranters such as Laurence Clarkson, Joseph Salmon and Jacob Bauthumley had been soldiers in the New Model Army; Abiezer Coppe had been an Army chaplain. They shared a sense of disillusion at the betrayal of the Levellers' political and social aims and embraced the concept of the Indwelling Spirit, maintaining that whatever was done in the Spirit was justifiable. This encouraged a sense of liberation from all legal and moral restraint. Organised forms of religion were rejected; even the Bible was disregarded. Free love, drinking, smoking and swearing were regarded as viable routes to spiritual liberation.
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