Product of Time

Posted on May 22, 2019 by 20godomskyj

In a matter of centuries, a country can drastically change. Whether the change occurs in beliefs, government, or popular ideals in our society, the country is always changing. Does the basis of morality change over the course of 200 years too? Will the evolution of our country lead to a broader change in the standards of United States society? Over the course of two hundred years, what used to be Puritan society standards is no longer our modern-day societies standards, and the change is drastic. Can you imagine the difference not only in our ideas and daily life, imagine the difference in the morality of our civilization; however, it can be interpreted that we are as moral now than we were during Puritan times in different aspects.

The change in religion from Puritan society to modern society is drastic. In the 1600s Puritan society was very organized and had a standard set of beliefs. Nearly all of the US population during that era believed in one specific religion, Puritanism. Their strict and ordered belief led them to have a very organized and structured society. The Puritans believed that God had a special way of providing and forming a covenant with them. All of their society believed in Puritanism and strongly felt that anything to disgrace Christianity would be immoral. English immigrants migrating from England were very passionate about the Puritan faith. This caused for a greater population of Puritan believers as more immigrants came. In Puritan faith, there is something called a predestined effect; this means that you are granted immediate permission to heaven. If given to you it plays a great deal of significance in your life. This background on Puritan society has provided an insight into not only the structure but the moral beliefs of their society. They had a structured way of living, showing that they are more moral than modern-day America. If you are constantly neat in your dorm room, you will most likely be a neat person and always want things to be tidy. So a structured way of living leads to a structured way of thinking. Structure and empathy are the two keys to being a moral person.  But our Modern day society is completely different than that of the Puritan’s. While their religion was solely Christianity, now the US has more than 127 different beliefs among the United States (Religion in the United States). This shows how diverse our society is becoming. This may seem like progress to many but this is causing conflict within our society. With more religions, this leads to certain people defending their religion and feeling violated when someone else has a different belief from them. To this day we hear jokes against Jewish people and the Holocaust just because of one event. If you are Jewish this normally is very offending and leads to an frustration and outrage. Muslim, Jewish, Mormon, Buddhism are all very popularly practiced religions in the United States. Yet these are religions that American people make fun of regularly, and it is unfair. Due to the lack of respect and empathy for other religions, the United States is slowly becoming less moral and empathetic. Empathy is a large part of being moral in our society and takes a strong stand towards why the US has been as moral as they were in Puritan times

Empathy and wholesome morals are extremely important in a healthy society. Every person has a different set of morals than the next. It does not matter if the morals coincide with what we call “healthy or not”, every society and person has morals. In moral beliefs a large part of being moral is empathy, in order to be empathetic you need to be openminded. Openminded individuals are always the nicest and most caring which is one thing keeping our society from outrage. Another large part of being moral in our society is helping others. Helping others has been a moral since the beginning of time, it is by far the most moral thing you can do. For instance, you see instances of helping others all around the world, allies in war, wealthy people providing money to people in need, and volunteer work otherwise known as community service. Companies like Feeding America have been known to aid others and have contributed largely to fixing hunger. You can find them all across the world, local and international. This shows that in today’s age, healthy morals such as helping others have advanced significantly compared to Puritan times. In Puritan times, helping others in need was not common, especially with countries or large corporations.  In modern America, it has become significantly easier to give to charities. Helping others is a popular act not matter what it is. But popular controversial ideas that encap our society will always be something that takes advantage of people in our lives and will never change.

Our society is controlled and surrounded by people encompassing negativity and it is absurd. Negativity is a domino effect that can be passed throughout the world and has strongly affected the world for centuries. Every dispute is another form of negativity and now they are transforming into different forms of negativity. They are mainly about ideas like transforming into a different gender, gender identity, and equal pay between men and women. These topics have changed drastically since Puritan society. Although there was one topic that has stayed the same, pay between men and women has always favored the men. Even though the modern world has progressed significantly we now come to see that men and women are beginning to receive close to equal pay. During Puritan times there was no acceptance of women in jobs of any kind. Women were solely meant for maintaining a neat and healthy household while taking care of the children. This has changed. This ideal of change is not favored in the world we live in today and is completely preposterous. The fact that we don’t accept people for who they are is the most immoral thing our modern society has done. It is one of the only things that has become better because we are starting to accept people for who they are.

Our modern-day society’s morals have stayed the same since the same since Puritan times.The change in morality from Puritan civilization to modern day society is drastic due to the change in religion, the willingness to help people in need, and the popular controversial ideas that encap our society. Yes, we have made advances and strides into becoming more moral and more accepting of popular ideas, yet everything is the same. Our country is flawed and no matter what our country will always be flawed.  We can not change the way people think or act or better yet their deep down personality’s yet we can make attempts to become a better country and live our lives more open-mindedly.

Works Cited

“State of Homelessness.” National Alliance to Help Homelessness, endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-report/.

“Witchcraft and the Salem Witch Trials.” News Bank, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/americas-historical-newspapers/witchcraft-and-salem-witch-trials?p=EANX-K12&pnews=WORLDNEWS.Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Penguin Books, 1996, pp. 239-243

“Religion in the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 12 Dec. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States.

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