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Since early Christianity, a doctrine of seven deadly sins has been taught. Pride, or hubris, is considered to be the sin that pushes you further away from God then any other sin. This sin, whether the sinner knows it or not, tries to put man in the same positio ....

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.... theological differences. This was the time of the Salem Witch Trials of Massachusetts. At Salem, many people were executed because they were thought to be witches. In today’s times that sounds absurd, but at that time it was a real fear, to think that they would be corrupted by these demonic beings and they would be kept from heaven. Goodman Brown was a church going man and most people would have thought him to be good. He came from a lineage of good Christian people, who the old stranger says, “I helped your grandfather, the constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem: and it was I that brought yo ....