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Christians over the years that speak out against the
theater and the sports and the banqueting. Even
the lawmakers in Rome got concerned about the
morality because of the theater. Even during the
first, second, and third centuries they were very
concerned. Many Puritans have written tracts
and articles against the plays, and one writer
made this statement in, I believe, a tract that he
wrote: “The ungodly plays interlude so riff in
this nation. What are they but a bastard of
Babylon, a daughter of confusion, a hellish
device, the devil's own recreation to mock at
holy things, by him delivered to the heathen
from them to the Papist and from them to
us.” And here's a quote by another author: "As
a bastard of Babylon, the stage which
Shakespeare trod was in the eyes of his Puritan
contemporaries more than immoral; it was
unholy.”
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