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Half-way Mormons: A lesson from the Puritans

December 3, 2008
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I hope everyone enjoyed their turkey and stuffing for Thanksgiving last week.  One thing I appreciate about the Puritans, other than their fondness for a good feast, burning witches, cool hats, repression of normal sexual desires, and providing the grist for great dramas like The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, is the good sense of their descendants in religious matters. They decided you could be a half-Puritan, which technically sounds like you’re half dirty today, but hear me out.

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