• @[email protected]
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    212 days ago

    The Puritans were, technically, fleeing because of their religion: like you say, the Netherlands were too tolerant/Protestant for them.

    • @SkunkWorkz
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      2 days ago

      They were also discriminated by the Dutch though. Since the Protestants weren’t very welcoming to religious zealots, because then they recently came out of the Eighty Years War with the Hapsburgs who wanted to suppress the Reformation in the Netherlands.

      • @captainlezbian
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        The puritans were protestants though. That’s part of why when they held power in England under Oliver Cromwell they were so brutal to the Irish.