Though we owe them for our freedom of religion and secularism, the Puritans and other Protestant movements crying about 'persecution' picked the fight in the first place. They were a bunch of self-righteous asshats so in love with their moral outrage that they could not stop aggressively bashing the Church. And you know many of them were drawn together by closet megalomaniacs seeking to become the prophets of their own little cults, and of course they need a common enemy to really bind their apostles together, so they whipped up populist fervor against the established institutions. Is it any wonder why they were so unwelcome that they had to go where no one else lived for 'freedom'? And conveniently where their leaders never have to answer to anyone.
Though we owe them for our freedom of religion and secularism, the Puritans and other Protestant movements crying about 'persecution' picked the fight in the first place. They were a bunch of self-righteous asshats so in love with their moral outrage that they could not stop aggressively bashing the Church. And you know many of them were drawn together by closet megalomaniacs seeking to become the prophets of their own little cults, and of course they need a common enemy to really bind their apostles together, so they whipped up populist fervor against the established institutions. Is it any wonder why they were so unwelcome that they had to go where no one else lived for 'freedom'? And conveniently where their leaders never have to answer to anyone.