It is a well-established fact that the desire for religious freedom played a major role in pushing English citizens to leave the comfort of their homes and head for a freshly colonized Massachusetts. The issue, however, therefore lies in identifying which religions where the first to colonize these new lands. Many believe that the pilgrims were the people who left England while Puritanism was the religion they practiced. In actuality, each group practiced their own independent religions which would eventually tear the groups apart and into separate colonies altogether. The pilgrims were part of a group known as the separatists. This was a religion which believed in complete and total separation from an already flawed and unrecoverable religion.
