Authors: M. Rowlandson, J. Edwards, T. Jefferson, W. Irving, and J. Cooper
Mary Rowlandson's short works displayed the puritanical ways of accepting their
fates, and any obstacles in their ways were tests from God. This way of
thinking and living is personified in her (basically) short narrative tale of
herself being captured by Indians, and her daughter being killed by the savages
by the way.
Jonathan Edwards, a exceptionally intelligent man, able to manipulate people. A
slight step up from Puritanism, the religion that he professed was one in which
a person could only be saved if they were elected by God above. Hey, some saved
was better than no saved...right? This form of believing didn't hold under
scrutiny either, as the evolution of religion shows, for example look at today.
You could be saved only if you were elected, and once you were elected you could
do no wrong, you were just short of divinity here on earth. What followed this
election, was usually prosperity,......
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