Monday, September 17, 2007

Sinners in the hand of an Angry God response

The picture that Edward is trying to paint to us about early American Puritan religion is that the Puritans were a very judging and stubborn people. The Puritans were also very easy to sentence a person to eternal hellfire and that there were no second thoughts about it. These Puritans just saw in black and white, right and wrong, if you did something immoral there was no room for repentance, thus no disagreement among the Puritans. Which leads that to our discussion about the tolerance of early settlers, which was that you were either tolerant or you were exiled for your radical thoughts. These Puritans were so passionate about what they worshiped, and were not tolerant, for they have multiple times exclaimed their hate of Jews. These Puritans were quite opposite then the early settlers like Roger Williams who accepted all religions.

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