Edited sentence: A return to Judaic rituals was a large part of the sense of "purifying" the Church from "gentile paganism", a sort of role model for modern people to live and worship as the Judaic Christians were persecuted by pagan Rome.Puritans were optimistic Judaizers of recent times, in a belief that the Roman Catholic Church had somehow become apostate without the Jewish customs that Saint Paul of Tarsus worked to extricate from the Faith.See also: Whore of Babylon, Christian Zionism, Fundamentalist Christianity.The Puritans believed that they were already living the experiences of the elder people, as they viewed the RCC to be corrupt from within as the old Roman Empire "was".They compared Popes to Roman Emperors.They were the first modern group to allow Jews back into Christendom, in the belief that it may help Puritans meet God easier by having the "Chosen people" among them