New religions
are still being created today because of the unique mindsets humans possess
whether they are praising Jesus, Satan, or some other spiritual being.
Religions are often created because of a certain cause that the community of
people all seeks. Strayer gives a perfect example of denominations from
religions being created during movements. As the protestant movement spread to
France, Switzerland, England and elsewhere protestant denominations resulted in
Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, Quaker and Anabaptists Some denominations have a
focuses that they would want their people to follow. The example in the book by Strayer mentions
the New England Puritans, which is a Protestan version of Christianity that
“[emphasizes] on education, moral purity, personal conversion, civic
responsibility, and little tolerance for competing expressions of the faith.”
In this section of Christianity Outward
Bound, the people of the New England Puritans did not show any interest in
converting the native people. At first I questioned why, but then I thought
about it and made some sense of it. The native people with their traditional
beliefs would get in the way of the Puritan’s focuses. The Puritan’s “[pushed]
them out of their ancestral territories” and by doing so, they removed the
potential threats that would get in the way of their focuses. I personally do
not think that is right to do considering their ancestors were there before
them. If anything the New England Puritan’s should have relocated somewhere
else that would not obstruct other people. By removing those people, they are
risking the loss of traditional beliefs that they possessed by replacing it
with new ones.
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