re: #74 HappyWarrior

When we’re taught about the Pilgrims in school, we’re shown them as victims of the Stuarts making Anglicanism the state church. Although James I and Charles I deserve their criticism, the Pilgrims were religious radicals who weren’t looking for true religious freedom. They wanted a state where they could be the dominant denomination and oppress others.

That’s just it; the Pilgrims were religious fanatics seeking to establish a theocratic state. When they couldn’t do that back in Merry Old England, they ran off to Holland and out of fear of not being able to maintain their strictly sectarian identity, decided to go the New World instead where they’d be essentially unchallenged.