Puritanism Is the Haunting Fear That Someone, Somewhere, May Be Happy

Thank you so much for this quote! I looked it up and found that the original author listed other hilarious truths - here follows an excerpt from a page on the Internet:

In 1949 H. L. Mencken published “A Mencken Chrestomathy” which included a section called “Arcana Coelestia” which contained the following four caustic items on the theme of religion

Theology —An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

The delusion of immortality is what ruined Egypt.

Puritanism —The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I read the other day a book defending the Ten Commandments. The best of all arguments for them, however, was omitted. It is that there are not forty

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/06/25/puritanism/

This is not a feel-good story, to say the least, and I couldn't bring myself to read this article. Even the accompanying image, with the following caption, is disturbing:

Since the 1970s, the state’s criminal and civil laws have allowed parents who belong to Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray as their children die

In the cause against earth-destroying data centers, no less.

This physics teacher is a hero.

I imagine he'll receive deep respect and endless accolades from staff, students, and the community at large.

"but forever more for having had you" - those are such beautiful words. And they're very appropriate in describing Dolly. Thank you for sharing that.

Or Ottawa, Illinois.

Or the Trump-Epstein Files?

Spot on.

He isn't. But the commenter you're replying to seems to have an obsession for down-votes.

EDIT: grammar

You truly did!

President Pedophile Donald J. Trump keeps throwing a tantrum every time he's reminded that the US lost the war he started without congressional approval. He then sulks, gets reminded that we're all still waiting for the Trump-Epstein files, and starts making demands anew on Iran.

This cycle seems to repeat itself.

Word.

Thank you for sharing those two names and happy cake day.

15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago:

> It won't be big and professional

Turns his "hobby" into the biggest, most professional, and most important software project in the solar system.

Wait, please. With all due respect, and if you wouldn't mind:

If alphabetical order is at all a consideration, I think Massachusetts should go first.

Good news on a Monday morning. Thank you for sharing this, OP.

Also, I hope the tech oligarch who owns this news source gets what he rightfully deserves.

For the manner in which you speak of being from a Canadian tribe while baring a remarkable ratio-losing comment history, I can't help but feel that this latest comment of yours carries some Dean Browning pedo party vibes.

It's so horrible, yet it's so true.

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While now unable to secure a deal with a neighbouring peaceful nation who is the living embodiment of a cartoon beaver offering to share their six-pack, Trump still insists that his negotiation skills are unparalleled.

Hilarious, I love it. LOL

Senator Ed Markey:

“There’s a reason why the Human Rights Campaign has endorsed me in this race. There’s a reason why the Christopher Street Project, the transgender community, has endorsed me in this race, and it’s because you threw those trans kids under the political bus, and you met with family members after you had made those very hurtful comments, and those families — they were hurt after they left that meeting,” Markey shot back, adding:

They said how hurt they were, and it was only two weeks ago that you finally apologized. But that’s almost two years later. Those families were hurting. They were in pain. And especially if a Democrat from Massachusetts is leading the attack upon them, then that’s why those communities have my back in this race, because I had their back during their toughest time.

Thank you, senator.

It was rather obvious to all that the United States lost the war, from early on.

The Pentagon was able to see this outcome beforehand, but President Pedophile obeys the Zionists like no other.