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Pilgrim said:
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john asked:
Maybe a more interesting and useful question is "What are the characteristics (good and bad?) of Puritan living?"
Well let's see... first we should establish a definition for a "Puritan". May I suggest: "A Puritan is someone who while sitting in his cellar in the dark says to himself, 'I have the strangest feeling that there is someone out there somewhere having fun!'" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Y'know I've heard that definition before but looking in my copy of Ambrose Bierce's dictionary I can't seem to find it so it must come from some other legendary wit. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rofl.gif" alt="" />

Peter

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. Augustine of Hippo