I have read some of them and those guys really had a grip on the truth. (John Bunyan etc. )
Books like Pilgrims Progress
2006-10-01 13:37:06 · 5 answers · asked by wisdom 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have not, but many great thinkers I know are very well read in Puritan literature. So I feel a bit slack in that regard.
2006-10-01 13:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pilgrims and Puritans were two different religious groups.
2006-10-01 20:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by Lacey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I read Jonathan Edwards on free will.
Like all Calvinists, they were dead wrong about a huge number of things. Calvinism is a monstrous, inhuman ideology. They were double predestinarians, for God's sake -- they believed that God *created people predestined for eternal torment.* That's not God -- that's the devil, IMHO. I'd call Calvinists Satanists.
2006-10-01 20:42:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only problem with the Puritans was that they forbid procreation and bred themselves out of existence.
2006-10-01 20:40:48 · answer #4 · answered by Bimpster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they were not that good of people. They punished others and killed others who did not believe in what they do.
2006-10-01 20:39:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋