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George Smith: The Good, the Bad, and the Puritans

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The Puritan Vision of Sex

St. Augustine has had an influence on Western culture that is unmatched by almost anyone I can think of, he says. The Puritans themselves were,. in fact, ardent admirers of Augustine and quoted him constantly. If you want to understand the modern puritanical vision of sex, where that came from, you read one author and you'll see it there. St. Augustine really hammered a lot of this out for himself.

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