So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong and deceitful ideas.
– Arthur Miller
The Crucible, Act 1. After quitting England over being persecuted for their religious beliefs, the Puritans ironically go on to do just that to others in the New World. They are hypocrites who turn the colony into a place of oppression for people of other religions.