[Alex Murphy]

For at the heart of Puritanism is a desire, grounded in Christ's gloriously limited-government teachings, to maintain liberty for the individual to do God's work on earth without a domineering government or rule by "experts." Each person should be the expert over his own life. Absolutely no populist ideas should be inferred from the Puritan demand for the diffusion of power and empowerment of the individual.

[wideawake]

the lurking remnants of ignorant popery

Stay classy, Sean Quigley.

[Unam Sanctam]

Roman Catholic universalism

Catholics are not Universalists. Christ died for all, but not all accept the grace given. As for the Puritans, their great legacy is dead in benighted New England. Nothing but a vast wasteland of leftist liberalism as far as the eye can see.

[Polybius]

For at the heart of Puritanism is a desire, grounded in Christ's gloriously limited-government teachings, to maintain liberty for the individual to do God's work on earth without a domineering government or rule by "experts." Each person should be the expert over his own life.

1. The Colony of Virginia preceded the Puritan Pilgrims. America is not the product solely of New England.

2. The Puritans may have been many things but champions of "liberty for the individual" they certainly were not. If an individual in the Puritan theocracy acted strange in the opinion of the Puritan ayatollahs, that individual was a dead man or a dead woman walking.

[kaehurowing]

Snort. Brown University was never “Puritan.” It was founded in the mid-1700s by religious liberals as a quasi-secular college.