How did Roger Williams’s religious ideas clash with those of the Puritans?
a. He believed that settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who had unconventional religious views should be banished.
b. He insisted that the civil rulers of Massachusetts had no business punishing settlers for their religious beliefs.
c. He believed that rather than separating from the Church of England, the Puritans should try to improve it.
d. He did not support religious toleration and insisted that members of the Church of England try to preserve their own freedom of worship.
b. He insisted that the civil rulers of Massachusetts had no business punishing settlers for their religious beliefs.
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