The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
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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.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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.
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
American society is still puritanical.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
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