Response: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

     The Puritan religion has drifted away from its true belief and has gone a step too far.  After hearing Pastor Edwards outrageous speech I am appalled to be considered of the Puritan religion.  For the past few weeks, the religion has really pushed me away but after this one final sermon, I can say I will no longer be a Puritan.
     Pastor Edwards stated that "The wrath of god burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow."  and "...thus easy is it for god to cast his enemies down to hell."  God does not wait around to cast everyone to hell.  The fire is not ready to receive us.  Pastor Edwards has now made it seem as if God hates us all and will only condemn us to hell.  The sermon was to negative and gave such a negative outlook on how god perceives us.  Pastor Edwards repeatedly referred to us as "sinners" and "enemies" of God.  Well sinner I may be because I can say I will no longer be of the Puritan religion due to this negative outlook on God.
     God does not view us as "enemies" but as followers.  That's why we follow him and that's what I intend to do but not under Pastor Edwards terms.  He went too far and was actually the sinner who tried turning us on how God truly feels about us.  The Puritan religion can do whatever now as I follow God in positive way and am no longer an "enemy."

My Impressions of Writing

Writing has never really been my thing.  In my personal opinion I have always started all my writing assignments early enough to plan everything out and have plenty of time to write the essay but always had troubles starting it.  For some reason this is were I seem to struggle with writing therefore, as you would probably think my confindence in my writing is not very high which is a completely true statement.  When it comes to my strengths and weaknesses, my major weaknesses are not starting well and not ending well and my strength would be once I started writing it typically starts to flow and it becomes easy for me to write all my main paragraphs.  The one thing I would really like to work on in my writing is my gramar.  I do not use the best grammar in my writing and often make gramatical errors.  Overall I'm not a huge fan of writing but I need to improve on my ability so I am excited to take the class and hopefully improve my writing skills.

When it comes to the portfolio assignment I really dont have any questions.  I do really like it though how we are allowed to chose our favorite pieces for the portfolio and dont have to use them all in case I had one bad paper or something.  The unit im looking forward to most is the Huck Fin unit.  Talking to the class last year, it sounded like they liked that unit and I find it very interesting so I am looking forward to that.  The unit I am most worried about is also the Huck Fin because I have heard it is a tougher unit but hopefully I will still do well.