Matthias Religious Beliefs

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Robert Matthews, later known as Matthias, was born in 1788 in Cambridge, New York to Scottish immigrants. His early childhood was full of turmoil. His father was abusive to him and to his mother. He grew up in a very strict religious community, where church was the center of the daily life and men dominated the household. Mattias’ parents passed while he was still young, and he lived with a few of the church elders until he decided to set out on his own. Throughout his life, Matthias joined many different religious groups that all had different views and values. Matthias created his own religion that seemed to be a mixture of many of the religions he was apart of throughout his life. He traveled all over New England preaching and gaining followers. Matthias’ followers were attracted …show more content…
Matthias was hit extremely hard by the market revolution, and it caused him fall into poverty. He wasn’t able to provide for his family and they had to moved into cheaper housing in order to try and stay afloat. The text said, “Like thousands of other American men, he had experienced the market revolution not as a liberating triumph but as a fitful, agonizing descent into wage labor (63).” Matthias’ view on the economy was there should be no market, no money, no buying or selling, no wages, and no economic oppression of any kind. His view also states that producers would keep what their house and family needed to survive and the rest would go to the temple in a city Matthias was to build, New Jerusalem. The temple’s first floor would be a warehouse where Levite priests would receive the surpluses of the producers and allow them to trade for other surpluses. The Levite priests would, essentially, replace the market entirely. This view would have been very popular among men and families who were devastated by the market revolution just like Matthias and his family
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