agentlemanloser wrote:pistolshrimp wrote:MagicManICT wrote:freedom and tolerance
This certainly is the myth of the pilgrims. Truth was they left the Netherlands because it was too liberal, they felt like it was going to make their children liberal as well.
Absolutely. These guys are part of the larger movement that felt it necessary to shut down the Globe theater in London, Shakespeare's stomping ground, and physically punish actors. Puritans would have felt right at home in a certain mountainous Middle Eastern nation. So, yes, nobody wanted them around in Europe, but then again they hardly wanted to be there as well (unless, of course, they could institute a theocracy). So, JC, you will be giving us a Merrymount option, yes?
People like that, yes. Actual Puritans of the sort you describe would probably be in a constant state of tension and distrust with the locals immediately given their similar disposition and being what they would think of as "Heathens". (If of course they lasted any amount of time. It's very likely that they would swiftly offend their new neighbors to a degree that would end in their swift demise. Even if you did stick them in during the time period they originally existed. The main difference would be that they would be enslaved and/or slaughtered mostly with knives, swords, and ugly sticks rather than AK-47's.)