From the link provided

On Puritans/Virginia Colony:
“Puritans used the law courts to harass and punish the small number of Quakers and Baptists that remained among them. But even though they hanged four Quakers around 1660, few Puritans were comfortable with this behavior. They preferred to cope with dissent by shunning the dissenters. Advocates of severe repression always spoke in the in the name of larger religious unity, but serious efforts to implement their program ended by dividing the community, not uniting it.
Something analogous happened in the seventeenth-century Virginia…Governor William Berkeley…exalted ‘for learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both’”

(No need to delve into other sources, although I could provide infinitely more crimes in the name of ‘God’ in early America)

We must remember a very small number of people at this time were ‘nonreligious’. It’s not comparable with today in the least, there were factions of religious extremists just as in Islam. (And I won’t start on the later KKK, maybe you thought they were a mere anti-racial group.)

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