Modern Puritan

In today's time, there is no such thing as Puritans anymore. The Puritans died out a good time ago. The Puritans were a very tough, strict people who would do anything to uphold their beliefs. Another group of people with similar behaviors could easily be identified as the Amish. The Amish could be said to be descendants of Puritans due to the fact that both groups have God very high in their beliefs. The Amish are just like the Puritans, but the Amish seem much less strict compared to the Puritans. The Amish had similar punishments compared to the Puritans. Both groups seem to do a lot of punishments involving public humiliation and shunning the particular person being punished. In this society, these punishments are very high due to the fact that most people will try to avoid you due to the fact of your negative status. The highest punishment for the Puritans was to be executed, but for the Amish, that would prove much more difficult since execution is frowned upon and the Amish would not be able to execute anybody without outside intervention. Another similarity between these two groups is due to the fact that they have no connections with the outside world, tending to seclude themselves, open only to others of their nature. These two groups have their own law system, their own courts and their own judges. Although they are in America, they refuse to be a part of the American society. They are here for their religious freedom just as the Puritans were here back then. Here they can practice whatever they please without any consequences. This is why the Modern Puriran seems to be the Amish people.