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Hey guys! Some of you may know may for some... rather ridiculous ASB threads a ways back. Regardless, I haven't posted in awhile, but I wanted to call on the historical knowledge of the forum for a question.

Judging by a recent podcast I listened to, I frequently got the sense that, in parts of the 17th century, the United Kingdom was on the edge of being taken over by Puritan religious fanatics, and turned into some sort of anti-catholic theocracy. Now, to my knowledge, they never got their wish, even with the English Civil War/Revolution/what have you, and a big reason they went to North America was so they could essentially live out their religion as they pleased.

So, I ask this. Could the Puritans have taken over England, and the rest of the UK, to the point of getting everything they wanted, in regards to how the Church of England was structured, and related political changes? Or, was that impossible because of who was likely to be monarch? And, if they did succeed, what would've happened to the country, and the rest of the world? Would it have become a terrifying theocracy that brutally murdered anyone who didn't appear loyal to the true faith? Or, judging by political beliefs of certain puritans, could it have become something completely different than any government we had previously seen?
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