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*[Puritanism is] the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
*[Puritanism is] the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
**[[H.L. Mencken]], {{cite news|url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28289|title=Iran's vice squad|publisher=[[w:Scripps Howard News Service|Scripps Howard News Service]]|date=November 12, 2007|accessdate=2007-11-13}}
**[[H.L. Mencken]], {{cite news|url=http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/28289|title=Iran's vice squad|publisher=[[w:Scripps Howard News Service|Scripps Howard News Service]]|date=November 12, 2007|accessdate=2007-11-13}}

*I am confident that, in the marketplace of ideas, sexual pleasure will trounce Puritanism--and almost everything else.
**[[w:Jacob M. Appel|Jacob Appel]], [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel/alabamas-bad-vibrations_b_300491.html "Alabama's Bad Vibrations"], ''Huffington Post'', Sept. 25, 2009.


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Revision as of 05:14, 26 September 2009

Puritanism originated as a Protestant response to Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism. It involves strict religious disciple and opposition to social pleasures. In modern times it has come to denote certain Islamic fundamentalist movements, too.

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  • I am confident that, in the marketplace of ideas, sexual pleasure will trounce Puritanism--and almost everything else.

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