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Re: Re The Puritan view of sexuality
Well,
whatever you say about the Puritans, they weren't as strict about sex as the
Shakers. This sect didn't believe in sex at all. They're "fold" was
supposed to be made of 100% new blood since they didn't believe in
procreating. It just never appealed to the masses and they all finally died.
They did leave a few good songs, "simple gifts" comes to mind, and some
alright furniture...
peace man,
"it's more than thunder
it's more than a bad dream
now that I'm sober."
--Elvis Costello
M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Smith" <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu>
To: "Over the Rhine List" <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:47 )v(ark
Subject: Re The Puritan view of sexuality
> > This is not to say they were without their faults. .... They have
certainly
> > gotten a "bad rap".
>
> My only beef with them is that they imprisoned, tortured and executed
Quakers.
> That's a pretty big "blind spot". It would be silly for me to hold a
grudge
> against a group that no longer exists; I'm just saying it's hard for me to
> recognize the positive side of a group that would have had no qualms about
> stringing me up if I had been around them. Frankly, I think they deserve
the
> bad rap. But then, my problems with them have nothing to do with
sexuality,
> and perhaps you did not intend your remarks to extend beyond the realm of
the
> way the word "puritan" is used in the vernacular today.
>
> Yours,
> --
> Don Smith Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
> donaldas at umich_edu http://xte.mit.edu/~dasmith/
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