What significant contribution did the puritans make to future generations about relationship between church and state?

Back then, the opinion from church ministers was held like some sort of divine statement that must be obeyed or the citizens will be punishable by law.
The puritans resist this phenomenon and exposed the dark birocracy that exist within the government and the old church and proved that the Government basically force the citizens to obey a certain religion. This lead to massive nation protest and lead to the separation of church and states

They are called independent