The Puritans were characterized by their ideological nature, intolerance of dissent, and willingness to employ political violence.

“these are young men who are very ideological very sure of their beliefs very intolerant of dissent who are willing to use political violence even before the war starts to advance their views.”

He believes the separation of church and state is a valuable necessity to prevent judicial injustices such as those seen in the Salem witch trials.

“I say this as a Catholic, right? Like I think that the separation of church and state in America is very helpful because if you're just assuming that these types of spiritual attacks are, you know, valid evidence, then you have stuff like, you know, like skeptor testimony”