“The British mocked the colonists as a bunch of religious bible-thumpers because we were morally strict for the times.”
Evidently they hadn’t met Ben Franklin.
In reality lot of colonial Americans might embarrass their modest descendents of today.
At least the ones outside of the joyless Puritan re-education camp up in New England, who even found celebrating Christmas to be too carnal to be permitted.
Ben Franklin was a bit of a libertine, but a lot of his “exploits” was 18th Century bragging. Even Franklin had a Judeo-Christian mindset.