>>3793109
The deepest most fundamental tenet of catholocisim is that bad things don't happen to good people. Good people that suffer were secretly bad, so god punished them, and punishment is good. Anybody, no matter who they are or what they do, always deserves anything that comes to them, because they're just secretly sinful in ways you can't see. There are few organized religions with more contempt for the human condition than roman catholicism. That tenet is the central question of countless schisms from the formal church. A less awful god is the core of a lot of sects that formed through the middle ages, and puritanism is a reactionary sect that embraces catholicism's "god is just the fucking worst" because it's reacting to perceived libertinism in english offshoots that challenged that tenet.
Lots of different versions of christianity do different things with the idea that "if bad things happen to you, you secretly deserved it" but the roots of it, and of all the sects that carried it to the new world, lie in the catholic's court.