Puritan churches as a distinct movement are extinct, but their legacy lives on through descendant denominations. The Puritans were not a formal church but a reform movement within the Church of England, seeking to "purify" it of Catholic practices. After the English Restoration in 1660 and the Act of Uniformity 1662, most Puritan clergy were expelled from the Church of England and became nonconformists.Today, direct descendants of Puritan congregations include:Congregationalist Churches, which inherited the Puritan principle of local church autonomy (self-governance).Presbyterian Churches, especially in the United States and Scotland, which uphold the Westminster Confession of Faith adopted by the Puritan-led Westminster Assembly.United Church of Christ (UCC), formed by the merger of many Congregationalist churches in the 20th century.Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches, which trace their roots to early New England Puritan congregations that later rejected the doctrine of the Trinity.Additionally, Puritan theological values—such as a focus on personal faith, biblical authority, and moral rigor—strongly influenced the rise of modern evangelicalism, including movements led by figures like John Piper and Tim Keller.While the historical Puritan movement ended by the mid-18th century, their spiritual and ecclesiastical DNA persists in multiple Christian traditions today.
36:00 Jews and Muslims codifying Judaism and Islam has been very useful to humanity.
37:00 The Trinity of Secular Koranism: Truth, Logic and Morality
38:00 The Secular Koranist is supposed to be honest, reasonable and decent ie not an antisemitic and Islamophobic racist sex offender.
39:00 Muslim beliefs
40:00 Smug Sam Tideman
42:00 Unitarian Christianity
43:00 Eucharist and Communion
44:00 Cannibals
45:00 George Washington
46:00 Thomas Jefferson
47:00 The Jefferson Bible and the Red Letter Bible
48:00 The Wild West
49:00 Atheists understand the need for law.
50:00 Marriage
51:00 Sodomy and pederasty in Rome
52:00 Using religion to frighten men of fighting age and women of child-bearing age to become and remain responsible married parents
53:00 Islamophobes keep not understanding the unanswerable case for sharia or the sharia lite of Secular Koranism.
54:00 Verbal diarrhea from narcissists and attention seekers
55:00 Holy orgies
56:00 Stoicism < Jihad
58:00 AA and Auron MacIntyre
1:01:00 Dugin's Fourth Political Theory
1:02:00 The logic of believing in the Abrahamic God and the afterlife
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