What the Pilgrims Really Sought...

Their trip to the New World wasn’t about tolerance or diversity. It was about purity. Yet the Revolutionary struggle united these diverse believers and set us on a path to the unprecedented religious harmony that this nation now celebrates.

What the Pilgrims really sought
By Michael Medved - USA Today 11/23/09

As American families sit down to their traditional Thanksgiving feasts, they will naturally recall the familiar story of the Pilgrims and, in the process, distort the true character of the nation's religious heritage.

Read the whole article here, which very nicely ties in what we learned in our fall study.