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	Were The Puritans Truly Puritanical?
	It was journalist H.L. Mencken who in 1928 famously defined "Puritanism" as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." The colonizers of New England, credited with the first Thanksgiving, are most often portrayed as drab, glum and pleasure-hating. those early settlers who came to the New World seeking "purity" in worship are today regularly characterized as stern, colorless, humorless and certainly sexless people. In short, "puritanical." But that image is a false one, schola

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