Specifically, the Puritan colonies were working to please God, and did such in a very strict and disciplined manner trying to keep the colonists clean of sin.10 Pirates avoided the strict religious colonies, like New England, because of the Puritan's involvement in the maritime world.11 On land in the New England and Chesapeake colonies, some of the most prosecuted crimes were sins, like drunkenness, swearing, and theft. ... Though the reports of piracy continued to show the moral side all through the century, such as drunkenness and swearing, because clearly those problems continue to be...

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To approach any text we must first have some understanding of what it is we hope to take away from it. In approaching a religious text this understanding becomes even more muddled due to the vast complexities and differences that exist between religion and contemporary thought. To accurately approach biblical thoughts we, as moderns, must learn to "unthink many thoughts" resulting from our present alienation of religion and spirituality. God in Search of Man, a text written almost half a century ago by Abraham Joshua Heschel, is the subject of our present inquiry. This text will, no doubt,...

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