Furthermore, Paine believes that God will not let America be destroyed: "I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent" (Paine paragraph 3). Lastly, Wheatley believes that God does not discriminate according to peoples' color; Everyone has the right to go to heaven: "Their colour is a diabloic die" (6). I agree with the authors notions of equality in America because America is a land of limitless opportunity.
question: Were all of the Founding Fathers religious?
connection: Just as the colonists showed frustration with the government, the tea party movement of today shows the same frustration with the government.
You made an interesting point. I didn't think about the "Creator" term being used instead of God so that people would be able to choose their religion. That actually makes perfect sense being that equality and the freedom to choose who you are and what you wanted to stand for was something very important to them at that time. That was a good interpretation you made!
ReplyDeleteI think that Wheatley made it a point for us to understand no matter the race nor color we all share something that will bring us together. I could only comment on this document because your link to your first part of this blog isn't accessible!
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies about your computer crashing, Colleen. Gotta love technology... But I could read your earlier post, too, so no real harm done. :)
ReplyDeleteTechnology can be rather frustrating at times!!
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