NYT - The Day Christian Fundamentalism Was Born (May 25th, 1919)

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2. One of the rewrites of history I caught onto late in life was

the notion that the pilgrims and others came to the Americas to escape religious persecution. Instead, it's become clear that many of these groups were "fundamentalists" trying to find a place to practice their controlling, manipulative, punitive style of Christianity free from oversight of the established churches in Europe. They were not nice people. Their ideas and attitudes are reflected in the excessive influence they have on culture in the US and other countries in the Americas. Like Australia got pushed many of the criminals from Europe, the US got the influx of religious nuts.