The New England colonies, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were conceived and established as "holy experiments" by the puritans. This group of English Protestants, whose only wish was to "purify" the Church of England, began to receive savage punishment from England for their religious beliefs. In turn, driven by religion, thousands of the religious zealots immigrated to New England to worship God in the way that they saw fit. However, although the Puritans did leave England, running from there own religious persecution, once they had established themselves they self-righteously employed the
As the colonists wanted to develop their own form of government, they also wanted to pursue their own form of religion. Religious freedom was one of the main goals of the settlers coming to the colonies. The Church of England was very controlling when the settlers lived in England, and many colonists wanted to get away from a tightness of the Church of England's grip. Many of them wanted to go to the colonies to worship freely on how they wanted to. Although many different religions were explored in the colonies such as the many Protestant religions, the Anglican dominance stayed amongst in the colonies.
These said factors led to considerable contrast. The colonists that settled in New England were families of young age. Family plays an important role in religion, and it shows that the colonists were planning to stay in America and form a community shaped around the church (document B). They were, for the most part, highly religious Puritans who wished to avoid religious persecution and wanted religious tolerance. So, they immigrated to America to follow their ideals, which are expressed in Document A.
These conflicts began to grow and become major issues within different nations as we see in this chapter. In Spanish America, the spaniards took their conquest of South America as an opportunity to inflict Christianity upon the Aztec and Inca people. Generally, the South American people accepted Christianity and were willing to convert to the faith. Occasionally there was rebellion but it didn't last long and Christianity remained intact. In retrospect, the complete opposite situation was happening in China.
The New England’s population settles for freedom from religious prosecution. The people that were prosecuting them were the Puritans. The Puritans only gave religious freedom to people they wanted to give it to. The rigid Puritan control added greater regional difference between the north and the south. In two of the documents written in New England, there were religious issues mentioned.
Thus separation of church and state came into play, with hopes of keeping public morality and avoiding corrupting embrace from the government. Throughout the new nation people had started disestablishing their churches that had deprived peoples from public funding and special legal privileges. The revolution enhanced the different types of American Christianity and widely expanded the idea of religious liberty. This gave people of different beliefs a safe and nonjudgmental environment to express their religion but also threatened the rights of those who undermined church
Since many men died at a young age, women had the right to inherit their husband’s wealth and estate. This set the Chesapeake apart from the New England colonies. The Chesapeake people were saved from failure by Captain John Smith with his rule of “He who shall not work shall not eat.” The New England area was founded by Pilgrims, or Separatists. The Pilgrims made the voyage across the Atlantic in 1620 for more religious reasons. They wanted a place where they would be free to worship their own religion and could live and die as good people.
The Mayflower Summary The difficult journey of the Pilgrims began when they left England for Leiden, Holland. At the time, King James required all citizens to follow the Church of England. However like many separatists of the time, the Pilgrims wanted to worship as they pleased (4). After many years in Holland, the Pilgrims decided that it was once again time to move. While Holland was religiously tolerant, the country required the Pilgrims to work difficult jobs that were hard on their bodies.
Although they are all different from each other, they seem to encompass the same principles of life and death. Normally whatever religion a person is born into, is the religion they end up practicing during their lifetime. Nevertheless, the reasons why those decide to convert are due to the lack of belief in their previous religion. In this generation opinions are changed, sides are taken, and debates emerge. Today there is great diversity among the religious backgrounds of students; this keeps the government believing that teaching of religion should be left out of schools.
Coberly 1 Wesley Coberly Assignment #1 Brent Paterline January 22, 2012 The Church of Satan The United States of America was founded on the idea of religious freedom. The European settlers escaped from religious persecution from their homelands. Since then, the idea of religious freedom has been accepted by the people of the United States of America. One of the religions that have been created in this country is the Church of Satan. Contrary to popular beliefs, the Church of Satan has many beliefs and practices that have a good moral foundation; however there are others that do not have the same good moral foundation.