• RedFrank24@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Didn’t the Puritans leave England because they really hated the Catholics and wanted to change the Church of England to not be as Catholic but the government of the day told them to fuck off?

    • superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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      21 hours ago

      The Puritans weren’t the only or even primary colonists, but yes that was their motivation. That and their barbaric faith practices were quite literally illegal… in medieval England of all places. Children weren’t even considered people yet but how the Puritans treated them was bad enough to be made illegal.

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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      19 hours ago

      Yea, kinda.

      More that the Puritans wanted everyone else to confirm to their stricter standards and ethics, and the people at the time were fed up and ran them out.