Religion+in+America

The Puritan Survival in America The Puritan character is still embedded in us today. It may be blatant...



The Puritans were "a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused" (Hawthorne, //The Scarlet Letter//)

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Or it can merely be demonstrated in our selfishness,


 * "All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside…"- Jack to Neal in //On the Road// by Jack Kerouac**



**"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creature and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…" ~ //The Great Gatsby//, F. Scott Fitzgerald**

fear,

**"Mr. Dimesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast, right over his heart" ~ Hawthorne, the //Scarlet Letter//**

and hypocrisy


 * There is "hidden sin every heart"~Hawthorne, the //Scarlet Letter// >> "Hidden sin involves the compounding sin of ** **hypocrisy **" (Luke 12:1)



in various aspects of our lives.



The Puritan Survival in America Reflection

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