tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30396930.post6797948679966110492..comments2023-10-21T07:58:50.161-08:00Comments on Maya's Granny: Were The Puritans Puritanical?Maya's Grannyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12183715043200608144noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30396930.post-20337730218992746402008-01-18T08:36:00.000-09:002008-01-18T08:36:00.000-09:00Hope you visit, please, our neo-Puritan site TheAm...Hope you visit, please, our neo-Puritan site TheAmericanView.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30396930.post-22631805894006432632008-01-18T07:08:00.000-09:002008-01-18T07:08:00.000-09:00Well that and many other historic portraits of the...Well that and many other historic portraits of the period. I found my books, after reading your blog and haven't had time to skim them yet-- Puritanism in Old and New England by Alan Simpson; The Way Our People Lived by William E. Woodward; and The Cultural Life of the American Colonies by Louis B. Wright. There are more in boxes upstairs. The simple face is that history is written by those not living in the same time and therefore subject to reinterpretation-- positive or negative. We probably can only read both and make our own assessment that maybe the truth lies somewhere in between. It doesn't matter much where the reason for our 'puritanical' belief in nudity being wrong, church going being good, sex only okay in married or engaged (which was as good as married back then) couples; but more that we look at any practices we have been taught were wrong and assess them for today. Some lay excuses or credit onto their past generations for their behavior today but we are each born anew and we can overcome false ideas with looking at what we perceive truth to be-- and wait for history to say we were wrong... or right.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30396930.post-15754544145343007702008-01-17T17:42:00.000-09:002008-01-17T17:42:00.000-09:00Ah, but the Victorians had the greatest porn the w...Ah, but the Victorians had the greatest porn the world has ever known.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07145008534811435024noreply@blogger.com