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These "seceders" were unhappy that the Dutch government at the time (1840s) was doing away with some relics of the old Calvinist theocracy in the Netherlands—e.g., ending discrimination against Catholics and Jews (we can't have that, can we?). In essence the Christian Reformed Church represented a further secession, only one taking..."
http://religiondispatches.org/dutch-treat-betsy-devos-and-the-christian-schools-movement/
