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Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
Jane Borden
2025
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The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863–1930). (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
by Jane Borden via The Nation on November 26, 2025
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