While prejudiced individuals may believe the myth that “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,” we should look to a far better, and truer, Puritanism. This race of Calvinists believes in what C.S. Lewis called a religion “too glad to be true.” This race dances through the eternal Sabbath and proclaims the news of our Lord’s sovereignty and grace to a lost people. This race radiates the light of the redemptive message so magnificently that the world will turn, look, and wonder. I heard one more leftist repeat this Puritan myth on C-Span last weekend.
Those who choose to pretend that there is no God can't understand this happiness because of misleading and misled folks lying about the Puritans, Jesus, Christianity and the free gift of salvation throughout the centuries. Happiness is believing. G.K. Chesterton once quipped, “Tolerance is the virtue of those who don’t believe anything.”