The Puritan Family

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This paper describes the Puritan way of life during colonial times in America. The paper describes the role of the father and mother and their focus on serving God through family life, their children and the church. The paper discusses the vision that Puritans had of bringing about the kingdom of God in the New World and how the family was seen as the primary tool for achieving this vision.

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"At Thanksgiving time, we usually see some representations of happy pilgrims sharing their first harvest with what they called Indians. These happy pilgrims, who arrived in America to escape religious and political persecution were not the Puritans. Puritans were far too orthodox Christians to consider happiness a worthwhile trait. One must remember that, despite being rousted from their native land because of their religious beliefs, they were less than tolerant of other Christians who arrived in the new land. One must remember that it was Puritans who painted the red on Hester Prynne, and their most noted spokesman was Cotton Mather who was, in a sense, a Puritan Joseph McCarthy."

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