America’s 'radical cultish origins' began with the Pilgrims

America’s 'radical cultish origins' began with the Pilgrims

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution, writes Jane Borden in The Nation. The Pilgrims and Puritans "left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas," she says, and effectively were part of what is today known as a doomsday cult."The Pilgrims and Puritans were high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups. If they were around today, most Americans would identify them as cults," Borden says.D…