Everything was governed by the Bible and the church hierarchy. That's why it was called a ';Bible Commonwealth.'; All church members were responsible for looking out for one another. If someone wasn't at church they were checked up on, if someone acted in an unconventional way they might be labeled a witch. Of course all of these actions reflected one of the great contradictions of the Puritans doesn't it? If people were actually predestined to heaven or predestined to hell (as John Calvin taught and as the Puritans believed) then there was no need to ever attend church or read the Bible was there? If you are going to hell anyway and good works won't change the hand of God, then why be a good person? Why not cheat on your wife, why not set fire to sheep, why not trip blind people? If heaven and hell are decided before our birth then what good is religion anyway?
Therefore the Puritan belief system was based on an illogical and irrational premise to begin with wasn't it?
And there you have it from a real historian.
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