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Puritanism and Enlightenment

Indeed, the various, conflicting English-Scottish churches and sects detached themselves from Rome; but they increasingly came under the influence of Judaism. Common to them is a preference for the Old Testament, which is particularly evident among the Puritans. Like the Jews, the Anglicans and Scots sought and continue to seek to regulate and rationalize all of life through strict laws; the Jewish Sabbath celebration was mirrored in the narrow-minded sanctification of Sunday; a Christian pharisaism emerged. Against their will, the Puritans, through the rationalization and methodization of life, benefited capitalism. Around 1700, they awakened a fierce commercial and acquisitive drive within themselves that alarmed their clergy to the highest degree. A contemporary writes: "Not compelled by anyone, but rather as a result of an unforeseen and unexpected change in the spirit of the people, all their thoughts and inclinations are directed toward business, as if they were being gathered and guided by a higher power."

It began the peculiar balance between a displayed piety and the unbridled greed for money, which is so unappealing to us Germans in the English and North Americans: "a powerful drive for acquisition under the ashes of an unheard-of bigotry."

1) Regarding Great Britain, Professor Kuhnemann states that, in its essence, it is "more a Jewish than a Christian power." There is a widely spread society in the Anglo-Saxon world that calls itself "Believers in Identity" because they believe that Britons and Israelites are "identical"; they claim that the Britons are the ten tribes separated from Judah after Solomon's death, the lost and found Israel. The same tendencies are represented by the influential Anglo-Israelite movement, which even infects the English royal family.