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August 15, 2025

QotD: American Puritanism

Filed under: Quotations, Religion, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 01:00

The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession.

H.L. Mencken, “Puritanism As a Literary Force”, A Book of Prefaces, 1917.

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