• MisterD@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It started a few centuries ago when this annoying group of people known as Puritans were expelled from their home country and sailed to north America.

    The natives saved them from starvation and today still impose their beliefs and values on everybody. These hypocritical laws is but one example

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      1 year ago

      They were not expelled from anywhere. They wanted to impose their religious doctrine on everyone else but every government keep telling them to fuck off.

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        It’s easy to get confused because a lot of people who left England did so because they had no other prospects or no other choice, in the case of criminals or financial delinquents.

        Reading up on the founding of the US is a doozy. Essentially, all the rejects of England sailed to the ‘New World’ because there was more opportunity for them there than at home.

        The ones who had it good stayed in England.

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      The Puritans were a small sect, just looking for the religious freedom to punish the best majority of people who didn’t believe the Puritans’ theology. Their notion of “religious freedom” is similar to the U.S. Catholic bishops’ notion. It’s a violation of religious freedom when people can make their own choices, and don’t have to obey a hierarchy.