Elitism Vs Nonconformism

whilst the nobles were persons who also believed they had the divine power to stay on top of the social hierarchy and support their superiors in maintaining social order.
Because of this, many of the serfs and underclass lived by the Pre-Christian traditions and teachings up till the 1600s (Sauer 156). They lived according to the traditions and principles of the Early Irish, Welsh and English customs which related to fairy tales and Druids as well as other superstitions that were not Biblical.
When the Church of England broke away from the Catholic Church, in the 1530s it maintained some of the classical teachings of the Catholic Church that supported elitism and other practices steeped in the serfdom system and the nobility process. Therefore, the plight of the poor and the serfs remained bad and the nonconformist sentiments commenced because people saw the actions of the Church to be problematic. …show more content…
This is because they considered the break-away from the Catholic Church to be problematic and most of these Puritans also had issues with the Catholic Church, thus, they had to stay away from the Church of England. These groups started meeting and they commenced their own views on things. There were a distinction and split between the Anglican tradition and the Puritan