Re: Dang - puritans get a bad rap...

["John Davis" <johnd@antioch-college.edu>]

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>> did ya'll know that Puritans were the first sect of Christianity to
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>> believe that sex was not only for pro-creation, but also for pleasure
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>> (and even for the glory of God - not a dirty thing, but something
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>> dangerous and holy to be celebrated)?  Puritans are cool.
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>What, they believed this before the Orthodox did?  :)

Besides that, that view of sex made its debut in non-Orthodox world with
the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther held this view. 

- John

John Paul Davis
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