Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God-wtf-they were way to strict

In Jonathan Edwards famous speech sinners in the hands of an angry God, he is painting for us the image of the early Puritan beliefs. Basically they believed that they were all doomed to go to hell. That the day you're born you're basically doomed, but if you lived a good life just maybe, maybe (not even like a 1% chance), but maybe God will change his mind and let you go to heaven, but if someone was to put it into words like that then it was considered heracey. During this time, the colonies were pretty close knitt and there was really no room for disagreement, unless you wanted to be banished from your colony or tried for being a witch. In the case of Anne Hutchinson, she was banished for believing in spiritualism, that God can speak directly to someone without needing a minister or priest to interpret. So most of the colonist, Puritans included, weren't very tolerant. You either follow the beliefs of the colony exactly or you get out. There was no room for the slightest bit of differance, the Puritans especially were socially repressive, if you didn't believe exactly what was being preached to you, then you just had to deal with it and keep it to yourself if you wanted to stay in the colony. It was like super clique to the extream, if you wern't exactly the same as everyone else than you're just not allowed in the group and you have to go find another one that'l take you. Kind of sad really.