Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - English English essay English essay It's easy to tell the difference from right and wrong. It's just like telling the difference between dark and light. But what if you grew up in the dark not knowing there was a light, then you'd only think in one direction. "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right." Society usually thinks in one way, only the intelligent and gifted few can think outside of the box, outside of how society views the world. They follow their hearts to decide what is right and wrong. They come from the dark but are able to see the light. One of the intelligent and gifted few is Jonathan Edwards who wrote Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God. In this writing he talks about how men are sinners and how they need to start living their lives according to the bible. Sin was always a big issue for the puritans because they believed that men were born sinners. In his Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God, he mentions "their foot shall slide in due time" meaning that men stand on slippery ground. He describes of the sinner as a loathsome spider suspended by a slender thread over a pit of seething brimstone. And that "there is no fortress that is any defense against the power of god." Meaning that you cannot escape God no matter what you do and that helped awaken the people of the evil things they do. The Colonial Era had views such as that. They lived their lives as well as they can, but they were doing something wrong. They were being hypocrites. They didn't exactly follow through what a good Christian should do. They showed discrimination against other backgrounds, they used suspicion as means of law (an example would be witch craft trials). This train of thought later changed as the Age of Reason came. In the Age of Reason, one of the primary goals was to abolish the ignorance in men. In Benjamin Franklin's the Temple of Learning, he mentions in a dream where people visited the Temple of Learning "that the whole tribe who entered into the temple with me, began to climb the throne; but the work proving troublesome and difficult most of them, they withdrew their hands from the plow, and concentrated themselves to sit at the foot, with madam idleness and her maid ignorance." He basically says that most people are too lazy to learn therefore they are ignorant and stay at the bottom. Ben also wanted the common people to go to the Temple of Theology, he says "blind to their children's dullness, and insensible of the solidity of their skulls, because they think their purses can afford it." Rich people are the only ones who can afford an education and a lot of the parents think money can buy intelligence. This Age brought many thinkers to see that society is corrupt. People like Crevecoeur and Thomas Paine made people see that slavery is wrong. De Crevecoeur writes that "are not these blacks thy children as well as we?" we are all made by God, we should treat everybody as equally as each other. People were being hypocrites to their own religion in Thomas Paine's Common Sense. "desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve,m and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist". America fought so hard to get freedom and here these "Christian" people own other people, use them for labor, treating them cruelly, and society accepts it! This is not very Christian like or American like, which makes them hypocrites. All these men could think and see what is wrong with society. They use moral conscience to persuade people because they know that moral conscience is built on shame. I can conclude from my studies if society is conscious, it is learned from people who were morally conscious at heart. People can learn to be morally conscience but it takes a special few to have moral virtue in themselves. Bibliography: Word Count: 702
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