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January 22, 2023
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Roots of feminism can be traced to a distortion of Victorian morality, diverging far from the Bible and sometimes even against it.
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Anglophilia is a central part of Victorian morality.
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In colonial America, the Salem Witch Trials in the late 1600s and later The Scarlet Letter can be understood as the result of excesses of Victorian morality.
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When atheism replaced faith in Emgland, Victorian morality became liberal censorship.
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Victorian morality is based more in a pretension of Rule of Law than in the Bible, which was rarely quoted publicly or by writers in England during this period or afterwards.
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Bowdlerizing
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Part of Victorian morality was a liberal denial about Jesus welcoming sinners.
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Judicial supremacy that increased in unchecked power in England, far beyond biblical values, may have worsened the censorship and other tyranny associated with Victorian morality.
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Debtor's prison was another example of injustice resulting from excessive expansion of Victorian morality.
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Mary Shelley, one of the most popular novelists from the era who was pro-life and penned classics including ''Frankenstein'' and ''The Last Man'', personally lived contrary to Victorian morality.
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January 18, 2023
Capital punishment -- not merely imprisonment -- was the over-the-top Victorian era penalty for bigamy.
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Charles Dickens, perhaps the most prominent author of the Victorian era, felt compelled to keep completely secret from the London public a Christian story that he wrote, and a mistress that he had after his marriage fell apart.
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Victorian morality is a rigid perspective developed during the Victorian era that included a great deal of censorship, double standards, and a lack of pro-life discourse. Ultimately, references to the Bible itself seemed to result
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