They Were not Pilgrims!

This really gets me whenever I hear one of the Protestant Patriotic Hymns, especially when one is inserted into the Liturgy of the Catholic Church:

The Mayflower folks were not Pilgrims. They were dangerous, revolutionary heretics who were escaping duty, law and Truth, in order to establish a demented little utopia where they could be free to burn witches and hang priests (I have no objection to the burning of witches - as I have said before, I think the Pope should apologize to the world for dropping the ball on this and should thank our separated brethren for their work in stamping out witchcraft). Our nation and the world would have been better off if these rascals foundered on the rocks and drowned in the frigid Atlantic, or had been forced to land in New Spain where they would have been treated properly by the Holy Office.

The celebration of victory over the Protestant usurper in England should be completely distinct from the survival of these Puritan wretches. There is some beautiful writing on the Natural Law found in the Declaration of Independence. We should examine that and celebrate that.

There is nothing Catholic about the evil of Puritanism. We should no more call these people pilgrims than we would the damned souls being carried to their everlasting place of suffering.