The irony in the Puritans is that they escaped from the restriction of religion and wanted to be from all that, yet the criticize their own and demean them and accuse them to be a sinner. It is hypocritical because they left a place that would have done the same thing to them and yet their doing it to their own people. Isn't being able to be free from religious persecution mean being free from ALL religious persecution.
As a society I don't see them as a free believing community, but a god-fearing union. It's as if they never even believed in religious persecution but used religion as a way to punish people they thought were crimes. That society in my opinion uses religion to get what they think is right. You can relate this to many time periods where people use "religion" as a way of doing something in their favor by making it "holy".
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