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The Puritan values that affected American society in both positive and negative ways continue to influence our nation today. The American concept of limited government stems from the Puritan community. Puritans believed that no single person or group of people should be trusted to run the government.

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Religion played an important rule in developing an educational system in the United States. The Puritans, a strict fundamentalist Protestant sect who immigrated to the New World for religious freedom beginning in 1609, believed that education was necessary in order to read the Bible to receive salvation.

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Individuals are capable of having power to make change.

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"Lives Worth Living in a Secular Age"  - "As Borgmann says, the divinities that descend upon a game are
impersonal ones. They bear no metaphysical issues—no questions,
for instance, about how to reconcile three persons in one God, or how
many angels can dance on the head of a pin—and the impersonal gods
of baseball encourage no questions about the afterlife or the nature of
the soul."
Puritans were very worried about the afterlife and said the nature of the soul was to sin.

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Marjane is incredibly lucky she wasn't kicked out of school for speaking her mind in front of the entire student body. Again, it is the mullah from her theological exam who comes to her rescue. His decision to have Marjane come up with a solution instead of assigning her a punishment is more evidence that he's a "true religious" man.

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The Puritans used their religion to come together. They found things to stay in common with one another. "A thoughtful and graceful ballpark tunes people to the same
harmonies. It inspires common pride and pleasure, a shared
sense of season and place, a joint anticipation of drama."

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The "American Dream" is totally different than what the Puritans believed in. It's believed people in the U.S. are free to pursue their own opportunities, to have their own ambitions, and creative drive.
James Truslow was an author who wrote "The Epic of America", which is a novel he uses to describe the American dream, "[It] is a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement … It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

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Anything that was against Puritans was considered a sin.

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One idea that Puritans had that we still have today is following religion by clothing.

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As Borgmann says "the divinities that descend upon a game are
impersonal ones. They bear no metaphysical issues no questions,
for instance, about how to reconcile three persons in one God, or how
many angels can dance on the head of a pin and the impersonal gods
of baseball encourage no questions about the afterlife or the nature of
the soul."

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Persepolis: In Puritan society PDA was also discouraged.

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In Lou Gehrig’s speech, he said “that I might have been given a bad break,
but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.” Little did he know that the Puritans actually believed in predestination and that God already knew that this was exactly what he was going to be going through