There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
American society is still puritanical.