Puritanism Vs Transcendentalism

Religions are beliefs which can change and evolve. They intertwine to connect together to mend a new religion. Puritanism is a belief in God, which you go to church to atone for your sins and stay pure. Puritans did not only believe that everyone is born with a sin that was called original sin but also that a saved soul can be taken by Satan because they fell into temptation. Deism is the belief of God as a Clockwork system and left the responsibility to follow the laws created by God. Deists used logic and reason; the idea of original sin was enslavement of the masses to priests. Transcendentalism is the belief that to be one with God is to be one with nature.Transcendentalists believed living in the moment was more important than living
A clockwork system is like the idea when you make a clock you’ll never have to touch it again, because all gears are in place. In Patrick Henry’s speech, he is trying to convince the delegates that they should fight back against Britain instead of just arguing about what to do. If we mean to survive as a country ”we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight!”(pg 122), after hearing Henry’s speech they were moved to agreement with him. Deists believed everything happened because God planned it so to reason that fighting is the only result. Since God left the world after creation, the Deists believed that He left it up to them to carry out the justices of the world, which in this case could include fighting to remain inviolate. "...all men are created equal; they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights... that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."(pg 141) Jackson is revealing the deist belief that God created all men and would not interfere with human affairs after he had created them. This is seen when Jefferson says, "[men] are endowed by their creator," as he refers to God as the creator, and "governments are instituted among men," saying that it is up to humans to take care of their affairs themselves. In Deism, the religious views were such that one single person, or even a group of people, were not
Transcendentalists believed in the Oversoul which is like a spiritual blob and everyone is part of it. In Emerson’s poem called Self-reliance he show the significance of trusting yourself because “[e]very heart vibrates to that iron string."(pg 246) Emerson stresses that there is lack of differences between all of us, because we are all connected through the oversoul. Every one vibrates to a single iron string so trust yourself. What Emerson said refers to the transcendentalist religious part of the Oversoul. It talks of how everyone is the same as the world around them. "So live, that when thy summons come to join... thou go not, like the quarry slave at night… [but thou go] like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."(pg 222) Bryant reflects the transcendental ideas that: death is only a movement into the Oversoul, and this life is more important than any afterlife. He does this by expressing the importance of living life in the moment. Altogether, Emerson and Bryant believe in the Oversoul which is almost the same as God from Deism and Puritanism, but yet all of them are not the same which bring the conclusion that they are changing into different version of each other as time