When the Puritans first immigrated to the American continent, did they attack dissidents and crowd out other religions?

"America was in the beginning", John Locke's sentence, is to regard the new continent as a "natural state" experimental field given by God to mankind. /kloc-The Puritans who set foot in America at the beginning of the 7th century survived in a difficult environment and finally found an effective way of government and social organization.

However, in his Mayflower, philbrick devoted considerable space to describing the war between New England and pocahontas, a native of North America, during the period of 1675- 1676. Philbrick repeatedly stressed that the contradiction between the two sides is inevitable and will break out sooner or later.

In the history of new immigrants in Europe for more than 40 years described by the Mayflower and the Mayflower Convention, the Puritans rarely had the opportunity to show the cruelty of human nature, and the "barbarians" they expected were not unreasonable. On the contrary, the Puritans not only got the guidance they needed, but also made peaceful contacts and transactions with indigenous leaders in a short time, and found a lot of food buried by Indians in the wild. Tianlu is not completely unmoved by these things. They organize themselves and remind each other to return what they have taken after they have weathered the storm and harvested their crops. Only once was it considered as "excessive defense". The brave and ruthless Captain standish felt that his safety was threatened and killed two unsuspecting Indian warriors at the Hongmen banquet.

The second and third generation of Puritan immigrants were obviously indifferent to the friendliness of Indians to their predecessors. 1623, in order to save the life of massasoit, the leader of pocahontas, Edward Winslow did almost everything he could, even scraped off the tongue coating for him and his men, thus gaining the lifelong friendship between the leader and him. However, 39 years later, Winslow's son waved a pistol and rushed into massasoit's son Alexander's shack to arrest people. Although it did not really hurt the latter's life, it indirectly led to his sudden death.

Winslow detonated the contradiction between British immigrants and Plymouth colonial Indians, which eventually led to the war in New England. Winslow's religious reflection on this matter is this: "We should be ashamed of our sins before God. It is our sins that make our merciful God disturb our peaceful and comfortable life with sadness. " This sentence is intriguing, showing an inherent understanding of Puritans: God is always on their side; At best, "barbarians" are just things created by God to test their conscience and will.

In fact, the Puritans never put maintaining friendly relations at the center of their code of conduct. The Mayflower boat people who claim to have opened up a new history can't deny their insincerity based on deep-rooted prejudice in their bones-they are just using Indians.

Philbrick said that by the turn of the 20th century and 2 1 century, "American citizens can finally recall Native Americans with a romantic feeling. Thanksgiving Day and its reconstructed image of harmonious cooperation between Indians and British people have replaced Plymouth Rock and Mayflower Conference and become the most important part of the myth of Tianluke. " However, the bloody facts cannot be erased by these subsequent symbolic ceremonies. At the end of 18 and the beginning of 19, the Indians were crushed by the rolling wheels of the great American immigration era, and even the hypocritical friendship gained by their ancestors in those years became extravagant hopes. In the end, it was this history, not the pioneering behavior of pilgrims, that became one of the original sins that could not be erased.