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Pilgrims & Puritans: Religious Roots of America

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Join us as we interview The Patriot Pastor, Garret Lear:
http://www.thewelloflivingwater.com and discuss the various separatists that settled Seventeenth-Century New England. Every kid in America knows that in 1620 the Pilgrims stepped off The Mayflower at Plymouth Rock. Then men in black like Captain Miles Standish and William Bradford, clad in buckled hats and shoes sat down with the rest of the Pilgrims to a tasty First Thanksgiving with Squanto and friendly Indians (and not-so-friendly Chief Massasoit).

But just who were these hardy souls who braved the tempestuous North Atlantic
only to hack out a distant, unknown wildnerness? Was their Mayflower Compact an early Declaration of Independence, placing a direct reliance on God and not King James? Why didn't they stay in civilized Leiden, Holland, where they found tolerance, safety, and modern prosperity? Why were they carrying The Geneva Bible of John Calvin? And who were the Puritans, who came ten years later on The Arabella, with John Winthrop proclaiming, "A City on A Hill"?
Listen now and sign up to also access our extra content, containing more conversing with Pastor Lear about the hsitory of the Pilgrims, and the brewing of a friendly "Holy War" between Scott and the Pastor.

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Not long after the early settlers established themselves, entrepreneurs
came to America to make money. Someone had to pay for those early ships to cross,
and early on, the terms Massachusetts Bay Colony and Massachusetts Bay Company
were nearly synonomous. Find out just how the Protestant Work Ethic started in
America, and business philosophy was interwoven with the Bible. Pastor Lear also
discusses early religious dissenters like William Penn and The Quakers in Pennsylvania, and Roger Williams who settled Rhode Island. Also Tom & Scott discuss an award they won at The New England History Festival.

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