One of the major motivating factors that resulted in puritans immigrating to the americas was religious persecution in england. puritans wanted to simplify christianity to its roots and remove the vestiges of catholic ritual and idolatry from the religion.?

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Explanation: The puritans advocated a different Catholic and Anglican forms of Christianity.

They wanted to abolish the ritual and be associated with the clergy, and also to allow people to show their love and to serve God in a more personal way, without

any formalities that can be associated with the Catholic and the Anglican worship.

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i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

china has confucianism thats everywhere in asia but it isn't really a religion.