"At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem fold believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand." (140)
Puritans are radical religious believer, they think anybody who thinks different, commits sin, or not believe god as infidels. Indians were considered to be savages who lived in the wilds with no faith, and a perfect fallback for Satan himself. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester was considered infidel when she got found out about her sexual sin. People gave her chance to revive her faith with life long punishment, but this however shows how radically the puritains react to their religious believes.
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