Religious Conflict In The Scarlet Letter

How is religious conflict at the center of American society? There are many causes to religious conflict, all of which are quite distinctive from each other. When the Crusades took place, the dispute was over land. During the Protestant Reformation, people had different interpretations of the bible. These conflicts took place in Europe, America’s source of religious disagreement can be blamed on its diversity. However, this cause applies to modern day America, what can you say about America back in the 1600s, when the Europeans just started settling and diversity wasn’t an issue? In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, the setting was Boston in the 1600s, when the Puritans started settling. The incongruity at that time was that their society was theocratic and Hester’s sin was an act contradicting their system. The problem with theocracies is that it combines religion and politics. …show more content…
The Establishment Clause is a limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation respecting an establishment of religion.( Another example of the cause of religious conflict is abortion. “Asked how they felt the Supreme Court should rule in the Texas case, 33 percent of poll respondents said the justices should strike down the law, 32 percent said they should uphold it and 36 percent said they did not know. The Supreme Court legalized abortion in its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. But a woman 's right to terminate a pregnancy remains a contentious issue among Americans and some states have sought to restrict abortion.” (Hurley) The state of Texas wants to have abortion declared illegal. However, this is contradicting the basis of this country, which creates separation between church and