Jonathan Edwards is a very religious and pious Puritan. In his speech “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, he stated that human are sinful in the eyes of god, and god have the power to destroy us if he ever wants to. I think Jonathan Edwards is not a very good choice if you want to live with somebody, as you can see; he is a very radical and extreme religious person. He says gods view us as something more disgusting than the evil serpents that we hate, and God has the power to “shoot an arrow” at as, as in killing us. I think his speech is trying to warn the people not to take things for granted, and we should be humble under the hands of god, and that god has the ability to take away everything we have, including our life. It is said that his speech made the crowds shriek and swoon. I think his speech won’t have the same effect on the modern religious people. Most people in our modern society don’t take the religion as serious as Jonathan Edwards does; they view the religion as only a way that can help them get through emotional hardships.
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