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Thanksgiving is the day America warmly
sentimentalizes the pilgrims.

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Americans usually confuse the pilgrims with
the Puritans, who were

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even more extremist, but also had money.

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The Puritans who ran the Massachusetts Bay
Colony later absorbed

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the pilgrims, but never absorbed the native
people.

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When it came to persecution, the Puritans were
quick learners.

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People like to claim that they fled Europe for
the

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New World to escape persecution.

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But they didn't hate persecution.

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No, they just hated not being the ones getting
to

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do it.

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In this way, the Puritans were this nation's
first Christian

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nationalists.

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I like to think of them as Project sixteen
thirty

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one, which is why the Puritans were our true
founding

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fathers instead of those powdered wigs, silk,
stockin' wearin' men

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who wrote the Constitution.