true or false
2006-12-01 15:05:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really. You are thinking of pietism which came a few generations after the colonial Puritans. The Puritans had public expression of their faith that effected their governance. This is one reason Roger Williams sought more religious freedom by starting his own colony (in Rhode Island).
2006-12-01 15:09:54 · answer #1 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on which group of Protestants you are asking about. The pilgrims believed that religion was mostly a matter of how you acted and your relationship between God/Jesus and yourself. The Quakers were/are the same. Some of the Calvinists and Presbeterians believed in being highly vocal and community-minded in their religion. There is no "true/false" answer to this question.
2006-12-01 15:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by harpertara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If their faith was so private, why was every town in Amercia, at that particular time, built with the church in the middle of it?
False. The Bible commands to preach and teach the word to the four corners of the world, and as dutiful as they were back then, they did it!
2006-12-01 15:10:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
" The Bible is the cornerstone of libery". -- Thoms Jefferson"
"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God and to obey Hs will". -- George Washington
"That Book (the Bible), sir, is the Rock on which our Republic rests". - Andrew Jackson
"God who gave us life and liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed the conviction that these liberties are a gift from God?" - Thomas Jefferson
Does that answer your question?
2006-12-01 15:07:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Second response is not appropriate to the question. The sources cited are dated over 100 years after the period related to the question.
2006-12-01 15:09:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God........True!
That's the difference between genuine Christianity and Religion.You have a relationship with your Savior.Religion,you are doing all sorts of rituals trying to please "The big man in the sky" whom you don't even know.
"Well,if I cross myself this way and kneel this way and light a candle and swing some incense and pay for absolution,maybe God will notice.....That's sad man ,really sad.
2006-12-01 15:11:15 · answer #6 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hehe. Symbolically, constructive. i replaced into at right here for 7 years under yet another call. somebody have been given my account suspended. So I stayed off for variety of 6 months, made a clean account, and right here i'm. :)
2016-12-13 18:24:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
religion,like dying, is a very personal thing
2006-12-01 15:08:06 · answer #8 · answered by thelordparadox 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no they believd that christianity is what it is a personal relationship with jesus christ
2006-12-01 15:06:35 · answer #9 · answered by Robert K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋