Rationalist

Breifly describe the differencences between the Puritans and the Rationalists. Please be careful not to repeat the same words you have read in this entry. Then give an example of something going on today that would be a good illustration of Puritan thought, and one that would be a good example of Rationalist thought.
The Puritans believe that God was all powerful and mighty. That He controlled the world and everybody in it. The Rationalist believed that God was powerful and mighty, but that He didn't have control over the world. The world was controlled by the natural laws and people were there to figure out the natural laws. An example of the Puritans belief today is the thunderstorm that's suppose to happen, they feel as if God has control over if it be a thunderstorm or not. The Rationalist beliefs they feel as if science have to do with the thunderstorm happening.
Read the excerpt from The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin in the red American Literature book. Pay special attention to the efforts Franklin made to improve his life.You can read the entire autobiography here. This may be interesting to browse through.
He made thirteen names that he wanted to change about himself. He also made a chart for hisself to make sure that he did what he said he was going to do. By the time he finish his goals, he would have no marks in his chart because he completed his tasks. Temperance comes first which means, eat not to dullness. Drink not to elevation. Don't drink or eat til you over feed yourself. Industry means lose no time. Bealways employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions. Keep yourself busy and stop all the non sense. Oder let all your things have their places . Let each part of your business have its time. Be more oderly and more cleaner.
Give one example from The Autobiography of how Franklin is a good example of a rationalist. Make sure you explain why, and provide an example straight from the text.
He used science to help him with making changes in his life. With the chart, he said, " I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first week my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against temperance. He believed that science was the only way to help him achieve his goals.
If you were to make a list of thirteen virtues to improve upon in your life, what would they be? List them the way Franklin did. Do you think you could reach moral perfection in this way? Explain how you feel. This should be a paragraph or two.
1. Hurtful: Don't blame others and make them suffer for what someone else did to you.
2. Honest: Even if you do something to someone and you know you're going to have to pay, don't lie to make it worse. Just be honest and tell the truth.
3. Hate: Learn to let go of the pain and suffering. You're only making yourself hurt more than you think.
4. Forgiveness: Forgive everyone, even when the person you hurts you in the worse way ever.
5. Pain: Don't let pain enterfere with your career. Learn to move on and let go of the past, even when its hard and you don't think you can.
6. Anger: Don't be controlled by anger. Let anger show in a way that isn't rough.
7. Kindness: Learn to be kind-hearted to others. No matter what they might say or do to you.
8. Blame: Don't blame yourself for everything that happens to you. For you have done nothing wrong.
9. Shameful: Don't be ashamed for what happens to you in life. Be stronger and learn from it, even if it wasn't your fault.
10. Drinking: Drink in a normal way. Don't drink to the point where you black-out and can't remember.
11. Problems: Learn to deal with problems for yourself. Don't let drugs be the solution for you.
12. Friends: Pick and choose who your real friends are. Don't just pick and say who they are.
13. Family: Don't let family tell you how to live your life. Live the way you want to, even if you choose to go down the wrong path.
Yes, I know I can reach these goals, because I do them everyday. To say that it will help me to be perfect, I can't. I know I'm not perfect and I won't ever be perfect. Trying to do these goals aren't as easy as they seem, it takes time and a lot of effort to get this done. Learning about yourself more and what you need to do to accomplish this.
I feel as if that you can do whatever it is you want. You have to put your all into it. You just can't say you're going to do something and not put nothing into it.
Read The Declaration of Independence. Provide at least three examples of Rationalist thought. You should explain each, and provide the example straight form the text.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
You can't mix church and state together, because you have two different kinds of belifes. Church believe in God's law and state believe you should follow only their laws. It helps people don't get judge because of their religious beliefs.
We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Everyone is coming together for political reasons, not religious reasons. They're trying to form a society where everyone has their own rights and should be treated equally. No matter how they live.
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies:
The King is braking the Rationlist laws because he trying to change their beliefs. The British was controling the colonist because they lost there legislative rights and their judicial rights, which in terms cause them to loose their Rationlist beliefs. Because everything was taking from them.
The King of England thought that his powers were given to him by God and God was the most important person in the world. The King was working through in what he did because he thought that's what God would do. The king also thought he was under God and that he knew just as much as God did.