The Puritans

On December 21, 2001 the first American Puritans landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, claiming it as their own. The Puritans were a religious group that separated from the Church of England because they believed it to be corrupt in its morals and views. This particular Separatist group wanted to go back to the ways of the Bible- hence living pure, unsullied lives. From the newly established Plymouth colony, their ideas spread. The strict society forced its members to …

…see, however, is that it took an individual to set all the standards that we live by. In the Puritan times, that person stood up and spoke against the entire Church of England. Today, that person comes to school with new, trendy jeans. Who is today’s society, that it has the power to judge and condemn people to social homicide? Individuality should be valued for what it is, “a light upon a darkened hilltop.”