While the Persians did enforce some rather retrospectively horrid punishments specifically punishing the Egyptian aristocracy by selling there daughters into slavery and killing their sons it is important to remember that everything from a historical perspective is realities. <span>the Assyrians on one hand once invited its enemy's over for a feast and served them their own son's head on a platter. then proceeded to rip out the eyeballs allowing them to live the rest of their lives with the last sight being the head of their sons.</span>
Jonathan Edwards was a theologian puritan who wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and is one of the biggest influences for the creation of the First Great Awakening.
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course
