Throughout the 1800’s there were many ways of life, religion playing a big or small role. What role does religion play in your life? Puritanism was the way of life that one would put God first. Deists believed that there was a God, yet he set up the universe and left, sort of like clockwork. Transcendentalists believed that in God is secondary, and yourself is first. They used nature to connect with God. Throughout the major literary philosophies in the United States one can see how the ideas and beliefs in religion shifted drastically.
Puritanism focused more on God and doing what is believed to be innately right in His eyes. Being a sinner is one of the worst things you can do at the time of puritanism. In the fiction play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor “is a sinner, a sinner not only against the fashion of the time” (20). John Proctor being accused of being a sinner shows that they really took religion seriously. Being a sinner means you aren’t being right under His eyes. Puritans believed that you can not rule anyone out, no matter how “saintly” As and example, they “Remembered, until an hour before the Devil fell. God thought …show more content…
Deists strayed away from religion, but not too much. Diests heavily focused on logic and reason. In the Speech to the Virginia Convention, by Patrick Henry, they believed that they “have but one lamp by with [their] feet are guided; and this is the lamp of experience. [They] know no way of judging the future but by the past” (123). Diests more heavily believed in facts. They use logic and reason to solve problems, not resort to God. Also in the Speech to the Virginia Convention, they believed that “ [They] are not weak, if [they] make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in [their] power” (Henry 230). To the Deists, God has made everyone strong, so they do not have to rely on Him. If you were a Deist, God was secondary to what you focused on for the most
Puritanism focused more on God and doing what is believed to be innately right in His eyes. Being a sinner is one of the worst things you can do at the time of puritanism. In the fiction play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, John Proctor “is a sinner, a sinner not only against the fashion of the time” (20). John Proctor being accused of being a sinner shows that they really took religion seriously. Being a sinner means you aren’t being right under His eyes. Puritans believed that you can not rule anyone out, no matter how “saintly” As and example, they “Remembered, until an hour before the Devil fell. God thought …show more content…
Deists strayed away from religion, but not too much. Diests heavily focused on logic and reason. In the Speech to the Virginia Convention, by Patrick Henry, they believed that they “have but one lamp by with [their] feet are guided; and this is the lamp of experience. [They] know no way of judging the future but by the past” (123). Diests more heavily believed in facts. They use logic and reason to solve problems, not resort to God. Also in the Speech to the Virginia Convention, they believed that “ [They] are not weak, if [they] make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in [their] power” (Henry 230). To the Deists, God has made everyone strong, so they do not have to rely on Him. If you were a Deist, God was secondary to what you focused on for the most