The Pilgrim Sense of Freedom

I'll admit it.  Purtians and pilgrams are a confusing subject for me.  How any group or person could be so sure of their own beliefs to sail to the ends of the earth to start a new way of life astounds me.  Perhaps that is why their contradictions, freedom to practice intolerance and their unchristian treatment of the Native Americans are so commonly overlooked.

However, because I know, I see the the early settlers in a critical light.

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all professors for God's sake. We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are going.

-A Model of Christian Clarity.

 I cannot help but to draw an allusion to the covenant the pilgrims believed they had with God, and the original covenants in Genesis that we discussed in Religion 121 this afternoon.  For all the love that the pilgrims claim they share with other Christians, they enstil the same sense of "those you are with you are blessed, and those against you are not" mindset found in the Old Testament.

To bring this post to a clearer focus, I answer the following question:
To whom are the freedoms extended and on what basis?

The purpose of the speech is to convince settlers to band together, with other Christians.  Outside groups, such as the Native Americans or other religions, are not mentioned.  "A Model of Christian Clarity" alludes many times to Moses and "other servants of the Lord".  Understanding this self-righteous mindset depicts how and why disagreements between the Native Americans and the settlers began.