Points of Interest

The whole idea that the first settlars, (and I say settlars specially becasue they are by no means the first people) had first come to the so called New World, naturaly now known as Amercia or the Unitied States on the quest for regligous freedom to escape the persecution for thier beleifs they had suffered at home in England is nothing more then a glamorsized and romantic ideal, and is not the whole spectrum of the truth, but rather in fact a skewered version of the truth.

In acutality, the Puritons, whom made up that first pilgram group to settle in the New World, did not leave for reasons of seeking relgion freedom per sae, but instead after they had broken away from the church they were of the beleif that Europe was corrupt and they had to go out to find a whole new world, a place that was fresh and free of the corruption in order to begin what they called the Puritan Utopia, thier initial intent when they came to the New World was not so that they would have freedom of relgion and be abale to practice thier beleifs without presecution, but rather more along the lines of establishing a Puriton Nation, a place in which thier beleifs were exclussively practiced.

Of course everyone already knows the story about what had happend in the end to the Native American's so I feel no need in hitting that nail over the head again, but in addtion to that, when other groups began to come over from Europe to practice thier own relgions and worship God in thier own way, such as the Quakers, Amish, Shakers, Monrovians, the Puritans saw is thirer just and Godly right to persecute these varrious people and groups.

On a little side note I just thought I would talk a little bit about the Shakers, simply becasue other then having heard about them, I previously knew very little about them, but have come to find them quite the intresting group. They lived much like the Amish are seen as living today, that is to say, they did not concern themselves with the outside world, and they stayed just within thier own communities worshiping in the matter they chose, while pretty much leaving the rest of the world to do what it liked, as well it acutally went against what they beleived to go out and try and convert others.

The Shakers were originally founded by a woman, and it was in fact a woman who first brought them over to the "New World" and they were quite well known for thier craftmanship, thier furniture making, and they paid a great deal of attention to deatil becasue this was the only formof art they were really allowed to have, for it was seen was practicual and useful, and they did not discriminate against gender in thier craftmanship, women and men were equally allowed to work in the field of furniture making.

1:06 PM - 4/9/2007 - post comment

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