The Struggle Between Puritans And Religious Freedom

A spiritual goal is bound to be much more meaningful than one based on greedy prosperity. If a group of people, in this case the case the Puritans, can gain both, than they have truly succeeded in a beneficial journey. The founders of the New England colonies encouraged religious freedom, democracy, and even inspired the holiday we know as Thanksgiving today, and are therefore more historically influential than Jamestown. Religion is the basis for how many people in the world live their lives. However, there isn’t just one religion, there are thousands. Therefore, if a country truly wants to be diverse and accepting, then Religious Freedom is a must. The Puritans came to the colonies so that they could practice what they believed, and thus the idea of Religious Freedom was spread. Unfortunately, Puritans weren’t very understanding to other religions, just like the Anglicans and Catholics were to them, so they didn’t allow many other religions to practice in their colonies, so total Religious Freedom was still a far away ideal. According to The New England Colonies, the new world was “...land… unspoiled. Children could be raised without the corruption of old English religious ideas… By 1620, …show more content…
It’s a letter to England addressing that they’ll have to move from the originally planned spot due to a bad storm, and that they’ll be making their own rules and laws for the most part. Later, Town Meetings would occur like in a democracy, and they even had elected legislatures. The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony cites itself that “Plymouth colony began to lay the foundation for democracy in the American Colonies”. Considering a Democracy is what the founding fathers and the USA today find to be the ideal government speaks volumes about what having Town Meeting and elected legislatures meant to New England even in the sixteenth