Pilgrims were the first people to set foot to the New World after declaring their dissatisfaction to the way church worked. From there, they again moved to a new land on Mayflower (boat’s name) towards America where they named the settlement as Plymouth, after the area of England they left behind. Fearing for their lives, about a hundred men, women and children set assail for Holland where they felt dissatisfied with the corruption of their faith and identity. There were arrests, sentences and even murders of these breakaway puritans. However, some puritans defied the Church of England and dared to make their own churches, which was enough for the church to persecute, harass and victimize such people. Most of the puritans remained within the confines of the church and decided to cleanse or purify the church through second reformation as they felt the church was coming under too much of catholic influences.
Within this wide group of people, there were people having a very distinct set of beliefs. The story begins in the late 15th and early 16th centuries when people who felt dissatisfied with the Church of England were referred to as puritans. Whether puritans or pilgrims, both groups branched out from the same Biblical Christianity. So, let us see what small differences these two groups, puritans and pilgrims, exhibited. However, it is a fact that there are differences between puritans and pilgrims that will be highlighted in this article. There are many who would rather harp on the similarities between puritans and pilgrims.
If you ask the kids of today the difference between puritans and the pilgrims, chances are that they would draw a blank, but when you ask the same question someone a bit older and having some interest in religion, he would interpret these two groups as people belonging to the same Catholic Church.
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