never-ending excuses and finger pointing. This is human nature at it's finest. Puritanism

probably couldn't make it today. In fact, it probably wouldn't have a chance. Today's

society would not be willing to make the sacrifices of chosen hardships to make the cut.

One of the most demanding religions, puritan belief forced its followers to change their

life in accordance to God's holy word, only to guess that he could possibly be one of the

elect. The puritan religion was based on five basic principles; supremacy of the divine

will, the depravity of man, election, free grace, and predestination. Each having a

distinct and overpowering effect on all who followed and basically scaring the living *censored*

out of people who did not. To live in the puritan society, a person had to play by the

puritan rules, or face banishment or even death.

The first major belief, and subject of great controversy, was the belief of the

supremacy of the divine will. Simply stated, everything that happened in the world was

because God wanted it that way. If God was pleased, good times came. If he wasn't

be unheralded must be the work of something outside of God's realm. This is where not

witch trials are a prime example of this. Although the Bible states, "Judge not, lest ye be

sentenced to eternal damnation. God though, sent Christ to Earth as a means of

produced healthy Christians. Unfortunately, as bibles became more and more common,

an influx of immigrants, which helped dismantle the entire city. The religious

The next most powerful ideal was that of predestination. This belief stated that

ideal is harmless, it relied on the entire congregation buying it in good faith, taking it

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