For as far back as anyone can remember the number one aspect in life that everyone always had different opinions on is Religion. Whether it’s fighting for freedom of religion or others fighting to make rules on how people should worship, it’s been a long running battle on each side. When it came down to it, all the colonist had their own opinion on religion and the right and wrong way to practice it.
No matter where you went or what people were doing religion was on everyone’s mind. In a letters that were sent to his wife Abigail, John Adams even tells of disagreement while he was away serving as a delegate on the Continental congress he even writes about it. In a letter sent on September 16, 1774 Adams said, “When congress first met Mrs. Cushing made a motion to open with prayer. It was opposed by Mr. Jay of New York and Mr. Rutledge. We are so divided in religious sentiments that we could not join in the same Act of worship.”(Adams 628) Even while they were doing things as important as writing the laws of our country, delegates couldn’t agree on something as simple as opening sessions with a quick prayer. …show more content…
Thomas Paine specifically published The Age of Reason to profess his views on religion. “My own mind is my own church.”(Paine 654) When Paine said that I think he felt as though he didn’t need to physically be in a church to worship how he thought some faith were telling you to worship. He goes on to say “I do not mean this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine.”(Paine 654) I feel that this was a way the world should have collectively viewed
No matter where you went or what people were doing religion was on everyone’s mind. In a letters that were sent to his wife Abigail, John Adams even tells of disagreement while he was away serving as a delegate on the Continental congress he even writes about it. In a letter sent on September 16, 1774 Adams said, “When congress first met Mrs. Cushing made a motion to open with prayer. It was opposed by Mr. Jay of New York and Mr. Rutledge. We are so divided in religious sentiments that we could not join in the same Act of worship.”(Adams 628) Even while they were doing things as important as writing the laws of our country, delegates couldn’t agree on something as simple as opening sessions with a quick prayer. …show more content…
Thomas Paine specifically published The Age of Reason to profess his views on religion. “My own mind is my own church.”(Paine 654) When Paine said that I think he felt as though he didn’t need to physically be in a church to worship how he thought some faith were telling you to worship. He goes on to say “I do not mean this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine.”(Paine 654) I feel that this was a way the world should have collectively viewed