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You're kind of a strange dude
In what way? It was a serious question. If you read about the puritans, they were a backwards and barbaric people. Similar to devoutly religious isolated people you might find today in the mountains of Afghanistan or similar places. I know that Sapper has studied this stuff heavily over the years and maybe others have as well and could offer some input as to how followers of Christ became such polar opposites of what Christ stood for? Did life just suck so bad back then that it turned them into a dark and twisted people? Were they this way when they were in England? Haven't studied this stuff since like 5th grade when all the teachers taught us that the Native Americans welcomed them all with open arms and everyone had potlucks and sang cumbaya together.