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[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

Can’t wait to see North Americans come back to Europe to runaway from religious persecution.

Welcome to the Old World my friends !

[-] Tarte@kbin.social 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What you imply is a common misconception. Puritans did not flee to America in the early modern period because they were religiously persecuted. They fled to America because they were not allowed to religiously persecute others anymore. They were scolded because of their religious intolerance not because of their religion per se.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago
[-] Tarte@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I was way too unspecific and have corrected my comment. Thank you for pointing it out.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Depends on if you mean Puritans in Massachusetts, or Quakers in Pennsylvania.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Puritans in Massachusetts are the reason Rhode Island exists and maintained indepedence when lots of early small colonies got absorbed into what became the other New England states. Roger Williams was like: fuck these guys, they said they wanted freedom of religion and I believed them. So after he obtained the land, he went back to the king to ratify the transfer which lead to borders that weren't easily dissolved.

[-] Tarte@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I was way too unspecific and have corrected my comment. Thank you for pointing it out.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Either you phrased that badly, or people are truly ignorant of history lmao

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I'll take the second one

[-] Tarte@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

Probably both.

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