>>17834221
This is a part of it too. English protestantism was notoriously split betwen an intellectual faction associated with the conformists and anti-intellectual side the non-conformists, the people we puritans. The non-coformists began to kinda make up their own theology because they feared relying on resources they had pretty much cut off from themselves. This lead to literalism and pretty early on even in the US colonies accounts where Satan ruled hell or things closer to personalist theism or even gnosticism.