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God has said, “You shall ever open your mouth in my cause, not fearing what man can do, for I am with you. Amen” (Doctrine and Covenants 30:11).
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Unfortunately in trying to make a point about the left, Card repeats anti-Cromwell/Puritan Restoration propaganda, which has subsequently been amplified by subsequent generations of leftists. At this point there is probably no point in pointing out the error because so many are invested in a false understanding of the Puritans. But for anyone who might have a moderately open mind, Cromwell and the Puritans first tried to establish a Republic governed by Parliament. When the monarchial culture frustrated that effort, they tried to establish a consitutional monarchy, which Charles I rejected. It was only after another 28 years of corrupt, degenerate Stuart rule that England finally got a clue, which resulted in the Glorious Revoltion of 1688, the English Bill of Rights of 1689, and a constitutional monarchy under William and Mary. None of this would have happened if it hadn’t been for the Puritans and Cromwell putting an end to the Renaissance-inspired totalitarian conception of absolute monarchy that the Tudors and Stuarts sought to impose over time.
As is true of all humans, Cromwell and the Puritans were far from perfect, a fact which they would have readily admitted, but they were vastly better than what preceeded them and what followed them.
Card’s “new Puritans” have as much to do with the historical Puritans as metastasizing cancer has to do with good health.