Although the Puritans have many great values after reading this book I found that their strongest value was their bravery. Throughout the book they showed true bravery by leaving and entering unknown places. Throughout their entire lives they were looked down on and were thought of as people who could make a difference and people that one could believe in. It's sad to think that this is common in history but it's very true. Once people realize that there is something different about you they don't like it and they think they are automatically better than you. Thankfully this problem is becoming less, and less common today. The United States believes that people should be free.
The Puritans are a also a very interesting group because of the way the mended together. They didn't mend together because of money or they wanted to gang up on a specific group, they mended because they all had a very unique spiritual bond that no one could break.
Spittle,
ReplyDeleteSadly I have to disagree in the fact that people are getting better about thinking that they aren't better than each other. I actually think it is exactly the same as the past, just different problems. They may not be as big of an issue so we don't notice them as much.
Having a religion in common can definitely bring people together. The Puritans were very brave to leave everything that they knew and travel to a new place.
Emily
Haley,
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point about the Puritans being united by their religious beliefs. There was a lot of truth to that.
But I also found it ironic that this same thing also drove them apart in some ways. Specific groups/congregations were so set in their beliefs that they wouldn't compromise at all, and ended up splitting off - think Roger Williams and Rhode Island, or Thomas Hooker and CT