The Rise And Fall Of The Puritan Paradigm

Known to mankind for centuries, plagues have taken part of the population and assumed to be God’s way of showing his ultimate power. Since the beginning of the Puritan times, God was the one and only person that seemed to matter. He was omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Daily life for the people of this time included living as though they were going to hell if they did not devote their time and actions towards God. Shifting from the Puritan to the Enlightenment, the population did not value God nearly as much as Puritan paradigm did. To most of the nation, God had built the world for them to control on their own. He was simply a watchmaker and had no effect on the society.