#Pilgrims and puritans how to#

No matter the ideology that our minds might subscribe to at a given point in time, our natural bodies still demand food at regular hours every day. When the smoke clears, one ideology will claim a win, but only temporary, until the next challenge.

Fights commence, battles erupt, and wars drag out. In politics and religion, the sponsors of one school dislike those of another, and vice versa.

#Pilgrims and puritans how to#

How to keep it all straight? What to believe? How to identify the truth? What school of thought creates the greater good?

Sometimes one music style remains solitary, but at other times, it will borrow from another.Īll of this change in ideology can confuse and disorient the wisest people. Branches can join together to form a single river, or they can split into streams.įor example, in music, there is classical, big band, hymns, rock, country, disco, rap, bebop, or a host of others. On its face, Kennedy’s claim is an obvious. In most cultural arenas-in religion, politics, literature, science, music, etc.-there are schools of thought, then a contradictory school, and then either a melting together or a further splintering apart of the several schools. James Kennedy’s claims that the American nation was founded by the Pilgrims and the Puritans and that 98 percent of the thirteen colonies’ 1770 population was Evangelical as examples of white Evangelical perpetuation of a myth of a Christian founding. “He states a proposition, finds a contradiction to it, and, correcting it in the light of this contradiction, finds a new contradiction. First, present a thesis, then submit a contradictory thought called an antithesis, and then propose a synthesis. Hegel, Engels, and Karl Marx, described a “dialectic method,” as a means to seek truth. A challenge to the ideology arises, and the ideology can respond in one of three ways: 1) disapprove and avoid any change, 2) compromise with the change, or 3) separate from the change and begin a new thought, a new school of thinking. Then, the Puritans sought to reform the Church of England from within, but the Separatists, like William Bradford and Roger Williams, wanted to institute a new and purer church.Ĭonfusing it is, but most ideologies change over time. Reformers of the 16th century, like England’s King Henry VIII, split apart from the Catholic Church. Out of the ancient Israelites’ Old Testament faith came the Christian faith that Europe adopted in the form of the Catholic church.

In America, the Native Americans’ religion yielded to England’s Christian faith. This early colonial American history demonstrates how ideologies change over time. He went so far as to refuse to pray-an act of worship-before his meals, with his wife Mary.Īfter months of debate, the Puritans banished this ultimate Separatist, Roger Williams, who fled to Narragansett Bay, where he established a new colony, Providence at Rhode Island. He permitted people to worship as they please, the idea of liberty of conscience, but he did not want to join in worship, in the same room, with any others who did not believe as he believed. Roger though took the principle of Separatism to an extreme degree, far further than did the Pilgrims. He said that first the Puritans had to renounce all association with the Anglican Church, and beg God for forgiveness forbeing Anglicans.Īfter quizzing Roger, the Puritans discovered he had converted to Separatism. Imagine their shock when Roger turned them down. Winthrop and the other Puritans leaders offered Roger a prime position as Teacher in the Boston church. Winthrop had known Williams back in old England and considered him a young Puritan minister, one of their own. Roger Williams and his wife Mary arrived in Boston on February 5, 1631, part of the Great Puritan Migration to what became a New England. Instead, the Puritans believed in simplicity and plainness in their worship and churches. The Puritans wanted to remove all traces of the Catholic Church from England’s Anglican Church: services spoken in Latin, a priests’ vestments and fine clothing, and elaborate churches with shrines and statues.