Who were the Pilgrims | Rapp Report Daily 0187 | Striving for Eternity

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The Pilgrims Were Primarily Puritans

When we think about Thanksgiving, we think of pilgrims with people with these funny hats that dressed very differently, and we all refer to them as pilgrims and often don't think who they were. Well, they were Puritans, primarily.

Puritans were people who wanted to live a pure life before Christ, and they, in England, were chased out because there was battles going on between the English, who wanted the Roman Catholic Church to rule, and the Reformers, who wanted the Bible to rule.

And so what you end up seeing is that there was a battle going on that forced, under Bloody Mary, many pilgrims or Puritans to flee England or die. Many did go to their death, and many fled, many of the which fled to the new world.

Hardships of the New World Settlement

And as they came to the new world, having to have to deal with a lot of difficulties that we don't often think about in our day and age, where we can go to a grocery store and just get whatever we need.

The reality was that they didn't have that. They had to go to a land where no one had lived before. There were no houses. They ended up having to build more cemeteries than huts. They put more or more coffins than huts.

In other words, that first year, they buried more people than they had for living houses. And so that's a thing to think about, these Puritans and what they did to come to America, fleeing Christian persecution from the Roman Catholics in England.

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