Religious separatists like the Pilgrims — often called Puritans because they believed the Church of England needed to be “purified” of all Roman Catholic influences — were mocked and vilified in the literature of the day, says Kristin Poole, an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware.
“The way people were imagining the Puritans in England was almost 180 degrees opposite” to the way they are seen today, says Poole, author of Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton. “They were being portrayed as drunken gluttons and routinely accused of being sexually promiscuous.”
Hmmmm. Maybe we need to revise all those elementary school Thanksgiving art projects.
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