The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
American society is still puritanical.
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