an took their culture and religion and combined it to create justification for any evil actions they took. Finally, the passing of the harsh Force Act of 1870 and 1871 allowed Federal troops to destroy the organization. By this time though the damage had already been done. Members of the Ku Klux Klan are very dedicated to their religion and cause. To get into the KKK a person must take an oath that says, "By my own free will and instance I (NAME) swear, by the mighty God, that I never to anyone will tell by a hint, sign, action or word about the secrets, signs, handshakes, keywords or ceremonies that belongs to the Order ***, neither that I am a member of this Order, or that I know somebody that is a member. Also I will submit to the regulations for the Order *** and it's commands." This oath showed that by being a Klan member you must be totally loyal to the cause, as if it were your religion. The Klan had sacrificial rituals in which they would wrap crosses with white bandages and then torch it before they started each meeting. Out of respect for their "religion" the Klansmen raided and torched the houses of black men, and they killed and mutilated blacks. The Puritan's religion was a well-known religion of the fifteen and sixteenth century. One ritual of the Puritans was they killed any suspected witches. What makes Puritans religion any different from the beliefs of the KKK? There isn't much, they both prosecute and kill people who don't comply with their way of life. To them, what they were doing was right. They felt their cause was very important, and it was to their ways of life. To the members of the Ku Klux Klan the new laws about no slavery went against their way of life. The South believed that blacks were inferior because they were brought up to think that. To this very day, some people believe that minorities are unequal to whites. A more common problem today is that people believe that blacks and other minorities are recei...
