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To: nickcarraway

The New Puritans — people with the pervasive fear and irrational suspicion that someone, somewhere, is having fun.


3 posted on 04/26/2010 9:57:09 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: dayglored

As usual I get in my quick response that the Puritans were a feasting, smoking, drinking, dancing, hard working, fun loving people.

The “Puritan” label referred to their desire to keep the worship pure of Roman Catholic influences.


7 posted on 04/26/2010 10:15:07 PM PDT by Persevero (If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?)
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