• s_s@lemmy.one
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    Roundheads (who later settled Massachusetts as Puritans) believed that Jesus would return to the center of the world (aka London, obs) speaking English to establish the New Jerusalem.

    This Anglo-Jesus idea then got brought here.

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      Don’t forget the mormons. “Actually, Jesus visited America before he ascended to Heaven! A stone in a hat told me so!”