You’re right; thing is, that I think that without the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans never would have had the revolution that culminated in beheading Charles I, throwing out the direct legitimate Stuart line, and bringing in the Hanovers if only because they were Protestant.
Just think, all that chaos because Anne Boleyn didn’t put out for Henry VIII
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In the end however, the puritans were the losers of the the 7th century wars not just in england. The Puritans were Calvinists. As it happened the Calvinists were losers all over Europe of the 17th century wars including the French Heugoneats the Dutch Reformed Church, the German Reformed Church, the Swedish reformed Church, the Swiss Reformed Church. The Scottish presbyterians were also Calvinists.. All these churches bailed out of Europe. The Calvinists were a majority of the USA population at the time of the revolution. However their percentages went into quick decline as they were superceded by the baptists and methodists by the mid 19th century.
I wonder what things would have been like if in fact Calvinists had been less fanatical. It was after the Restoration that Puritanism became a persecuted doctrine and thankfully we now live in a time when we don’t live in a society that forbids having a good time.
Yet one leftover I have noticed is that we have high standards of a work ethic.