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Mary Rowlandson's short works displayed the puritanical ways of accepting their fates, and
any obstacles in their ways were tests from God.  This way of thinking and living is
personified in her (basically) short narrative tale of herself being captured by Indians, and
her daughter being killed by the savages by the way.

Jonathan Edwards, a exceptionally intelligent man, able to manipulate people.  A slight step
up from Puritanism, the religion that he professed was one in which a person could only be
saved if they were elected by God above.  Hey, some saved was better than no
saved...right?  This form of believing didn't hold under scrutiny either, as the evolution of
religion shows, for example look at today.  You could be saved only if you were elected,
and once you were elected you could do no wrong, you were just short of divinity here on
earth.  What followed this election, was usually prosperity, power ...

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