In “The Wordy Shipmates” written by Sarah vowel, she quotes, “The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.” One of the main reason people migrated to North America was because the King of England forced all English people to attend his church, the Church of England, which was a Protestant Church. Every other religion was forced to be practiced privately, and were oppressed by people who are Protestant.
Religious freedom has played a very important role in the history of the United States before 1865. Europeans migrated to America to escape religious injustice and forced beliefs by the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. This religious injustice increased the desire of the forefathers to form the organization of a country that separates church and state, and the freedom to practice any religion without fear of being judged or persecuted. Religion including Christians, Separatist, Puritans, Quakers and many others, were determined to find …show more content…
He believed that he and the other Puritans had a commitment with God to establish a society governed by the testament in which everyone worked together for the country’s common good. In her book “The Wordy Shipmates”, Sarah vowell quotes, “The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted by the Puritans’ vision of themselves as God’s chosen people, as a beacon of righteousness that all others are to admire.” The puritan’s beliefs also helped shaped America ethics and also influenced the America constitution by combining the law and religious beliefs, which is visual in Samuel Adams “The rights of the colonists” citing, “As neither reason requires nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his