JLEW

I have too say, at least they were controversial. By today's general standards, they weren't the best of cultures. There obsessive commitment to god, the basis of their beliefs, was sometime too much. The Puritan trusted too much in the fate of you know who. Some instances of their beliefs, such as predestination, were just absurd. How could one fall for such a insane concept? Then, what was the people's will to do good? Of course, they did good. Of course, to the Puritans this meant going to Church when you had to. I, too, question their work ethic. They had the vast natural recourses, of course when I mention this i mean those that they could actually eat, that would have but taken simple, yet hard, work. Yet, wasn't that one of the Puritan's beliefs, or was it not? Well, regardless, their priorities were skewed beyond conversion. There lack of guidance for thing other than religion caused them to act in their own fashion for survival. By pure fate this came from the hand of the Indians. Yet, after these givers of gifts would die out, the Puritans would take their remains; corn, possessions, land. Puritans; all religion and survival, or was this not entirely the case?

These people were only surviving in the fashion they knew of. They followed only the bible, learned only by its teachings. The Puritans were only one sided, they had only one ultimate goal in life. Puritans did only what they knew was good. That, by today's standards, are of highest respect. Mary Rowlandson was a wonderful Puritan, by example. She not only lived by the bible, but she survived. She saved the soul of a child(from my view). I know, in my first paragraph I made it seem as if the Puritans were incapable of doing good. Yes, they had their issues, but so do we. Today, comparing side to side, our to their standards, the Puritans were much, much better persons in the eyes of their society.