Daniel Doyle, Jesse Rushing, and Rodney Stark in their article “Religion and Suicide”, write about the Catholic faith believes that taking your own life or committing suicide was considered to be a “mortal sin” (p. The idea of committing suicide was a controversial topic because many of the citizens in their area were protestant, and few were Catholic such as the Shimerda family. Throughout the novel My Antonia, by Willa Cather the Protestant/ Lutheran Burden family was not able to accept the Catholic Shimerda family’s beliefs in suicide, purgatory, and iconography. The Protestants/ Lutherans do not believe in Purgatory, and they believe you can pray directly to god. However for the Protestants/ Lutherans believed suicide was not as sinful as the Catholics.
They believe that your soul would suffer in purgatory, and to help that soul you must pray through icons. For the Catholics they believed suicide was sinful to god. At this time in the nineteenth century the Protestants/ Lutherans made up the majority of the citizens in the United States, which proved to cause religious differences with the Catholics because of their different ways of practicing their religion.īetween the two religions many disagreements have come from certain topics in their religions. The Catholics and the Protestants/ Lutherans showed many differences between the two religions, and this caused many issues in many communities. Religious Differences in My Antonia During the nineteenth century many Bohemian immigrants left their homelands in search of a sustainable life, and to be able to survive with their families.
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