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Separatists who rejected the Church of England as corrupt and fled persecution to America.
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Pilgrims
Separatists who rejected the Church of England as corrupt and fled persecution to America.
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Jiang says America was founded by pilgrims seeking to build a kingdom of heaven on earth, while Puritans stayed in England and fought the Civil War.
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Pilgrims are defined as separatists who thought the Church of England should be abolished or separated from, were persecuted by the king, and fled to America.
diagnosis
Jiang says Pilgrim religious conflict migrates into America, producing a tradition of intense religious intolerance that still survives in some regions.
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"Church of England, it's fine, but there's certain things within the Church of England which is too much like the Catholic Church, so if..."
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"...these people we call separatists, okay? And they will become the pilgrims, because obviously the king will persecute these people. They will feel, the..."
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"...speak today. 1620 is significant because it's the year when the pilgrims on the Mayflower, they moved to America to found a new colony,..."
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"And, as a compromise, the pilgrims were allowed to go to America to build a new civilization based on their beliefs. And this civilization,..."
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"...for us to remember is this conflict is being, through the pilgrims, is now migrating to America. And these people will make America into..."
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"But hey, go to, I don't know, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. They're not very tolerant people, okay? And you can make the argument that they..."
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"...the Knights Templars, it's really the first multinational bank because these pilgrims are going to Holy Land and they need to bring money with..."
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"...guys and leave me alone okay so the dissenters go as pilgrims to America to build their own theocracy what they believe to be..."
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"...the question is, what's the difference between the Puritans and the Pilgrims? Okay, let's go into the problem of religion in England at this..."
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"...sense? Okay? Okay. So, that's a great question. So, if these pilgrims went over to America, how was America able to become this multicultural..."
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"...there's now chaos. And as such, bandits roam the land. And pilgrims find it more and more dangerous to venture into Jerusalem. Does that..."
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"...first multinational organization in Europe. So they were meant to protect pilgrims along the way to Jerusalem. What they really did was pilgrims would..."
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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