the rationalists

Jasmine viola Barnes
2/7/07
Lit 11.

The Rationalists:

1). The difference between Rationalists, and the Puritans is that the Rationalists believe in god but do not rely on him and that god is not responsible for everything like the puritans do.
The puritans believe a little bit more they think that if you don’t believe in him you should be a lower class than the others and get treated differently than the middle, and the high class. Puritans will also prosecute you if you do something wrong.
The things that’s going on today that reminds me a lot about the puritans is christens, people who go to church a lot throughout the whole week and week end are considered christens to me. The thing to day that reminds me of Rationalist is how we don’t rely on god to do everything, it’s not his responsibility, he died for us and that was good enough.

2). Number 2 was to read the Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin.

3). Franklin was a good example to the rationalist because he didn’t rely on god for everything he was responsible for his own problems not god. Franklin believes that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. Franklin did wait around doing nothing, waiting for god to help him, because if he did he wouldn’t got anything accomplish. Franklin wrote autobiography books, that’s why the Rationalists believe in science, because they think that it could be recognized more.
It you didn’t have science in this world we wouldn’t have made it this far we wouldn’t know anything about this world not even god if they didn’t have science. In science you do research to study the world and what was in it before us and beneath it. “A Rationalist would believe that anything could be understood through science.”

4).
1. Honesty- be real with people but not to out of hand.
2. respect- people need to admire me more.
3. responsibility- doing what I need to do first.
4. organized- having my important papers in the right place.
5. plans- knowing what I’m going to do after school.
6. arbitrate- get to know me better.
7. confident- people looks up to me, keep it that way.
8. determined- mean business, don’t play around.
9. straggling- life could have been easier.
10. crowded- need to get away and be on my own for an chance.
11. trouble- keep my distance and do the right thing.
12. money- need some.
13. food- don’t get to over weight, stay healthy.

I feel that I should be a bit more organized to know what is where. I know what I’m going to do in the future, my plans are to become a medical assistance first then work my way up. When finishes with that go into the army, I’m determining to go. A lot of people look up to me now that they know that I’m going to do something with my life, now my niece wants to go to high tech Institute and be something. It’s my responsibility to do so, to show a good example for my nieces. Yes, I know I can reach my foolish potential to meet these needs.

5). * In the declaration of independence my three examples of what rationalist thought was that working in you own past to succeed is the was to go in life not looking up for god to do it.
* The rationalist thought that everything on the earth came from us, man made objects, which it wasn’t left by god.
* That they believed that all people are created equally. “That Knowledge is the path to go”.