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But gambling's place at the table is threatened by the puritans, who've used their political muscle to help establish a National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
In a very general sense the Puritans can be said to have added a few names to the stock which modern parents draw upon, but the author obviously did not mean that.
The Puritans substituted such names for the others because they did not believe in honoring, as they would have put it, Popish saints.
To me it matters that in his second paragraph, for example, he says that “to John, Mary, Peter, Matthew and Christopher the Puritans added, for girls, Prudence, Constance, and Charity, and for boys, Increase, Preserved and Learned.
In a particularly fanciful metonym, the Narragansetts referred to the Puritans as Wood-burners .