[marshmallow]

This is not as bad as the Puritans in England smashing all the stained glass windows and statues, not by any means, but it's the same thing in a much lesser degree. As one of Kipling's characters said, "Man needs ritual"

Yep......those Puritans.

The same anti-Catholic Puritans that founded America.

Ooops! Did I say that?

[AnAmericanMother]

Must not have read your history very carefully.

"Massachusetts Bay and parts adjacent" were Puritan. They banned Christmas, Roger Williams, and Morton of Merrymount, infected the Indians with smallpox, burned witches on "spectral evidence", and otherwise annoyed decent people.

The Middle Atlantic states were Presbyterian (and Quaker and Moravian in the case of Pennsylvania).

The South was Anglican (and Catholic in the case of Maryland).

Nice try. Take one of the free brochures on your way out.