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The Threat of Anne Hutchinson

 

            
             There are many people in modern day era, who think that it's not a bad thing to tell people the negatives or even positives of a certain religion or belief of some sort. There are many rights that protect us from causing problems within a group of people or even the government. Unfortunately it wasn't the same back in the 1600s when Europeans discovered the New World, and started to make new laws and to make their own decisions on how to deal with certain problems especially when it came to religious views and beliefs. Anne Hutchinson was a woman, mother, wife, and just another Puritan. Everyone thought she was a well-respected woman who did what everyone else did, which was go to church, and of course lived his or her life under the government. My reaction was, I thought that the judicial system was a successful way to control the way things work, to a certain extent. I think it was a good thing to have Christianity as a central religion. There was a lot more control over everyone and everything that went on. .
             In my reaction to Christianity being a central religion, it was a good way to have people under control, for example, drug addictions, family problems, population (meaning natural deaths and births). There are so many things that people didn't have to worry about because there was a sense of control and they lived by it. They didn't have to worry about power or even money at the time. Everybody came from the same place and everyone was new to the country, so there were many things that they all had in common. The government had more control what was being taught in schools and in the churches, even at meetings in some ones household, like the example of Anne Hutchinson. She had meetings at her house and taught the bible, the word of God, which is what was the right thing to do back then. But the court didn't see it that way. They thought that she was a threat to society and would soon evolve and get worse and try to maybe pull people away from the central religion.


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