People would want to become scholar officials because if they did, they would get respected and reduced penalties for breaking the law
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Calvinism had great influence throughout the world and as a result of this, there were many supporters to back up and vote in favor of chauvinistic ideas. As more governments were becoming democratic, more votes made more of the decisions.
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I don't know a whole lot of Calvinism but this is the best I could do in 10 minutes
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Hi! Here's a little answer:
1) Yes! I do believe that the Ten Commandments changed how they lived. It helped provide some (rough) guidelines for how they were to live their lives. Before, rules were there, but none of them were set in stone (literally)
2) I think that the Hebrews didn't really always follow the Commandments that God set before them. They still killed people, got with others' wives, made idols, etc... but one that I think was extra important was the 8th, stealing. Stealing was punishable by death back then.
3) One Commandment that not many people care about anymore is the 7th, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Women are constantly getting pregnant out of wedlock, and are taking contraceptives to help justify their actions.
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That those who do not distinguish between law and religion are quick to judge and condemn others.
Explanation:
The passage we are analyzing was taken from the novel "The Scarlet Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne. As we know, the book tells the fictional story of a woman who is greatly punished for being a single mother. Sleeping with someone and getting pregnant, even if both people involved were not married to other people, was regarded as adultery in puritan Boston. In the passage, the author shows the people who were ready to condemn did so because they believed they were doing what was right. They saw no distinction between religion and law. And they would apply any type of punishment with the same severity, since all crimes, no matter how big or small, were an offense to their religious principles, were a sin. As is stated in the book:
<em>[...] there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators; as befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders at the scaffold.</em>
