Modern Puritan

After reading The Crucible and continuing to read The Scarlet Letter, I'd have to say that Puritans are the most strict group of "Christians" I've ever heard of. Thank God the Puritans don't exist in society today. Or do they? Is there a such thing called a Modern Puritan? Unfortunately yes.

Modern Puritans still exist in today's world, though they're not as severe as they were back then. In the 16th and 17th century, Puritans had combined law and religion, making life really bland and hard to live by. Though they handle things the wrong way (according to modern people), all they wanted to do was make their little village(s) a better place, despite how they got rid of sinners. The modern Puritans today would be have to be us human beings. 

Human beings are criticizers, even if we don't know it. For example. People who do drugs. How would human beings react? "Oh my goodness. He knows drugs are bad for him. Why is he doing drugs? He can get sick and probably die from drugs. People who do drugs are slow - they don't know the consequence of doing drugs, obviously. He'll learn his lesson". Yes, WE are the modern day Puritans! We have standards. We have "opinions". We have the list of good things we should do and the list of bad things we shouldn't do. We automatically judge people. We (sometimes) don't think of the reason(s) why someone would do something so bad. Ok, we aren't as strict as the Puritans back then. We don't kill people who do bad. But we do bring them down socially, mentally, and verbally. Us human beings are unfortunately the modern day Puritans.