Religious Liberation And The Puritans

As one would call it today, the freedom of religion was just a way of life for only the Puritans in the world they created, as they could not believe what they wanted they were forced to believe that it was the Church of England's way or get out. Furthermore, "That state that will give liberty of conscience in matters of religion, must give liberty of conscience and conversation in their moral laws, or else the fiddle will be out of tune, and some of the strings crack" (Document G). It was to their belief that if religion was allowed to be a choice, a state

There is a Powerade advertisement on television that says, “We’re all just a kid from somewhere.” It means that no matter what one does in life, everyone starts off in the same spot. While this is true for today, it can also be applied to the foundational Puritan roots of this country. In 1629 when the Puritans first arrived in Salem, Puritans began to broaden their influence throughout the new world. Similarly to the advertisement, most of American society began with the same Puritan disciplines and beliefs, and some of the iconic Puritan standards can still be detected in regions of America today. The article “Still Puritan After All These Years,” claims that Puritan ideas can still be seen in American life. This statement is completely true because Puritan values and ideals are extremely visible in modern America.

People started to look at religion differently. Puritan theology focused on what God had done for the people. Now, people started to look at what man could do because of the gifts God had bestowed on us. The responsibility for salvation is not God's but man's himself.

The Puritans and the Quakers are two religious groups that played an important role in the colonization of America. Both of these groups disliked the church of England and sought to gain freedom of worship and lifestyle. Therefore, the Puritans and the Quakers are similar to each other because they both faced persecution and left England to go to America with the goal and hope of living the life they wanted, gain more opportunity, and to practice their desired religion freely.

The Puritans encountered many hardships during the 17th century. These included traveling to the New World, fighting in King Phillip’s War, and questioning their belief in God at times. The Puritans were one of the religious groups who believed The Church of England needed to be purified. The other group representing this notion called themselves Pilgrims. The Pilgrims differentiated themselves from the Puritans because the Pilgrims believed The Church of England was corrupted to deeply, and could not be purified from within. The Pilgrims wished to separate themselves from The Church of England, causing the Pilgrims to also be called separatists. The Puritans, however, wanted to purify The Church of England from within. For this reason, the

The puritans go create the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They didn’t have strict rules like England, people were not forced to go to church, it all seems great. However, there were many issues. Puritans believed in Calvinism, or predestination. This was the idea that everything is preset by God and nothing you do can change your fate. “Nothing a person did in his or her lifetime could alter God’s choice or provide assurance that the person was predestined for salvation with the elect or damned to hell with the doomed multitude.” (The American

Throughout the colonization of America, many different religions and groups found a home in the New World. One of these religions was the Puritans. More commonly known as the pilgrims, the Puritans are a group of very strict, religious persons. Puritans were English Protestants who believed the Reformation did not rid the church of Catholic influences enough (“Puritans” Robinson).

The Puritans view of education the same way they viewed religion. It was a major part of their daily routine. The puritans had different ways of teaching their children, they used the New England Primer, which was one of the first books to be published in the 18th century. They used this to teach the children how to read and write properly. This book also taught the children the difference of right and wrong, along with the respect of parental figures, sin and salvation.

Early English settlers came to colonial America to escape religious oppression in England, however, one settling in America they enforced their own religious oppression on both natives, and colonials who dared to question their religion. The colonial hierarchy had a very basic pattern, those who followed the religion of the colony had the most power. Those who opposed were given little to no power, and we often forced to either stay silent or leave the community as a whole in search of land in which they were free to express their beliefs. This religious oppression is a common theme with the Puritan community of New England, where Roger Williams was forced to move to providence due to his beliefs, so called “witches” were murdered with little proof of any wrongdoing, and Native Americans were looked at as impure due to their culture. By sustaining a society of religious oppression the Puritans were able to hold a great amount of power in the Northern colonies of America.

Puritans were families from England that followed John Winthrop and his idea of reforming their religion in Massachusetts and spreading their beliefs. Colonists who joined the voyage were those who had disapproved on the way the Church of England went against the will of god and still had some of the rituals practiced by the Roman Catholic Church. Winthrop believed the failure of other colonies was their sins and how god disapproved upon them for their actions.

I have been convinced that the Puritans were a little too committed to their religion. The church taught people to suppress their emotions and opinions, to ignore individual differences, and taught anyone who stepped outside these boundaries risked being labeled and possessed by the devil. If you ask me, I would say that witches have their individual differences. Puritans said they ignore the individual differences. They also said they believe in witches.

There are three different aspects of a state that determine if it is a success or failure: society, politics, and economics. Some are able to thrive in all three areas but others can only find triumph in one or two. The Puritans appeared to prosper in all of these, especially since many in that time saw them to be a beacon to humanity. While they did experience instances of defeat, overall they were a model society in the American Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Most Americans know of Puritans and Pilgrims but don't recognize differences in their beliefs, how they came about and why they are often confused with one another. Many think they are the same, for good reason, though this isn't the complete truth. There are also stereotypes placed on the two groups like the Pilgrims, formally known as Separatists, being gentle, truth-seekers, and they Puritans being harsh, and outlawing any and everything deemed un-Godly. They had opposite agendas, and didn’t get along most of the time in England as well as the New World.

Pilgrims and Puritans by Victor. B Lane The major difference between pilgrims and puritans is mostly in definition and not necessarily type. Both stem from the same beginning which was a deliberate response to the failing religious state of a young England. Protestantism was a difficult religion to fare during the reign of King Henry VIII.

The Puritans goal in New England was to create the perfect pure society where nobody sinned and God ruled completely. They attempted this by making laws about and regulating every aspect of life in the colony. To achieve this, the church needed to rule the colony. And if the church ruled the colony, only the real Puritans could be part of the church. They believed only a minority of the population pure enough to be a part of the church. In reality very few people were ever able to give enough evidence that they had completed their part. As a result, two-thirds of the population failed to qualify as church members. The Puritans enacted many laws to keep the non-Puritans living religious lives. They created an official whose only job was to check up on ten families daily to see if anything out of the ordinary was happening and to make sure everyone who was able went to church. Their idea was that everybody, even if they weren’t part of the church, should be very religious. Therefore they created their laws with principles based on the Old Testament. They dreamed of a society where everybody followed the laws and lived a peaceful, god-fearing existence. To make this dream realizable, the Puritans created severe penalties for breaking the laws. These ranged from whipping and being thrown in the stocks for minor offenses, to banishment and death by hanging for serious ones. To be a good Puritan one had to work hard all