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> The USA is just way more religious overall; - Pilgrims were the most radical protestant Christians, they were kicked out of Europe and then spread their socia
by hellofunk 8y ago
> The USA is just way more religious overall; - Pilgrims were the most radical protestant Christians, they were kicked out of Europe and then spread their social norms in the USA, in a very early moment of the development of American culture.
Exactly, and most Americans are quite unaware of the brutal history and behaviors of the Pilgrims. They celebrate Pilgrims at Thanksgiving and teach kids only about the ships they sailed on (the Mayflower, an iconic name), not about how Pilgrims burned each other alive if they did not satisfy the religious standards of the culture. America was built on this mentality, yet it is never taught and it seeps through the culture.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoThe salem witch-hunts are taught but agree on the back burner.
- jacobush 8y agoNot only on the back burner, but as some kind of weird, separate thing. No one is connecting the dots to the puritans. History is taught like the news is reported, disconnected incidents. I am reminded of the children in Mad Max reciting how they crashed on their airplane.
- renholder 8y ago>Not only on the back burner, but as some kind of weird, separate thing. No one is connecting the dots to the puritans. True. It's why they repeated the very same prosecution complex trap during McCarthyism. Same finger-pointing scenario, it was just a different boogeyman to be afraid of - so it wasn't "the same".
- saalweachter 8y agoHate to break it to you, but witch hunts were a European thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early_Modern_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early_Modern_Europe The Salem affair is notable as "that one time we did the thing"; also, we hung our witches, we didn't burn them.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoSure these folks were Europeans, perhaps selected for nastiness.