Most of what is popular belief of the Puritans is BS anyway.
Frankly, any thoughts whatsoever at the good or evil of “Puritans” I’ve ever had (mostly when learning of them 50 years ago or more) pitifully pale in comparison to my thoughts on the same subject with Muslims.
To me, this Puritan question is whimsical and pointless diversion.
When a tyrant is in charge who does not like the truth to be told and there is no freedom of speech, history gets skewed.
When good historians like today go back and read state records they usually find out that the people who supposedly wrote history at the time actually did it to make the tyrant look good. Meanwhile, anyone attempting to write the truth was attainted with treason and executed.
The Puritans were really an interesting bunch.
What some would see as the Puritans as “ extremists “ with ultra pieity or no dancing on Sunday is totally incorrect.
As you very well have stated, the popular belief and propaganda of today of the Puritans is total BS.
What the Puritans were , and what they fought for, believed in ?
Religious reforms.
They wanted more reforms than what the church of England accomplished, and to weed out corruption in the church of England.
The technically speaking, or term of the Puritans is?
Is that ?
That had a strict adherence to the bible, the gospel apart from the way of doing things as in regard to the church of England.
That their lives, their peity, the way they do things as in their worship derived totally from the bible, the gospel, theology, no bells or whistles from overly glorified religion.
They wanted to exposed the corruption in the Anglican and Catholic church.
It would be correct to say that Ted Cruz is a Purtians as in regard to the adherence of the US Constitution.
A Putrian as in regard to as they way it was originally intended for government to function with the US constitution as the framework.
Hey, don’t knock Charles II—he originated the Tory Party in England.