Under a totalitarian system, the government has total control and authority over almost every aspect of a citizen’s life such as wage, legal rights, civil rights, personal freedoms, available foods, jobs, safety, free speech, etc. A totalitarian government relies primarily on the word of their leader who can inflict as much pain and injustice on a country as they find necessary. Their citizens are guaranteed no legal protections or basic rights.
Salem Witch Hunt Trials which started because a group of girls were claimed to be possessed by the devil and soon to blame local women around the area.
American Protestants were afraid of the increased catholic immigration since <u>they felt threatened by the idea of America becoming a Catholic country. </u>
- On the one hand, Catholics believed a different Christianity than Protestants. Protestants, as opposed to the Catholic church, thought the following:
- Less hierarchy in church structure.
- The Bible and, not the sacraments, as source of revelation from God
- Jesus as the only necessary intercessor with God.
- There was an prejudice from anti-catholics that has to do with social class or status of the inmigrants. <u>Protestants from upper classes</u>, believed that the inmigrants were poor, therefore, they associated them with crime, danger and laziness.
- The fear from the American protestants created by the massive flow of catholic inmigrants, was so big that even a popular national organization, the <u>American Protective Association</u>, was founded to promote anti-Catholicism.
Reincarnation that’s is what the belief is.
