• joneskind@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

    Welcome to the Old World my friends !

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      1 year ago

      Sorry, we all were educated by the American school system and thus have no useful skills or knowledge Europeans need.

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      1 year 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.

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

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        1 year ago

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

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          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.

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