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I think that if Anne Hutchinson had not specifically said God spoke to her she would have been acquitted but because of the beliefs of the puritans that God no longer spoke to people directly that admission by her became their whole case against her and was the sole reason for banishment. ~~Mary Beth Conrad | I think that if Anne Hutchinson had not specifically said God spoke to her she would have been acquitted but because of the beliefs of the puritans that God no longer spoke to people directly that admission by her became their whole case against her and was the sole reason for banishment. ~~Mary Beth Conrad | ||
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| + | I agree with Cheryl that the rules seem to contradict themselves when they say that fortification or misbehavior should be punished no matter the gender, and women were punished harsher. But perhaps it goes back to the idea that while men were "smarter" and both admit guilt that it was the woman's fault because of the idea that women were filled with sin, as evidenced in the Bible when Eve disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit (if i remember this is a belief that was still around at that time), and men were easily swayed by women (as perhaps they believed Adam was). So since the original sin in the Bible was committed by a woman, and it was a religious society, perhaps men were less punished because it was believed that they were seduced by the evils of women. - Elizabeth Frank | ||
