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    Re: Warning: Dancing leads to hell!

    Quote Originally Posted by Baruch
    I know the book was published over a century ago and ideas have changed since then, but as a practising Christian I still find it an embarrassment that some people would seriously believe such rubbish as this enough to write a book about it. Such extreme ideas give the rest of us Christians a bad name. Rest assured that most of us aren't like that!
    I actually think the book had a serious point to make. In present times, we are aware of sleazy guys who only go dancing looking for "a bit of skirt".

    One hundred years ago it was probably much the same, except that a girl's "virtue" was a powerful concept, and the rules of society put a great deal of weight onto it.

    It was aimed at innocents who were not aware of what dancing can be like. Maybe it actually served a purpose...
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    Re: Warning: Dancing leads to hell!

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi
    I actually think the book had a serious point to make. In present times, we are aware of sleazy guys who only go dancing looking for "a bit of skirt".

    One hundred years ago it was probably much the same, except that a girl's "virtue" was a powerful concept, and the rules of society put a great deal of weight onto it.

    It was aimed at innocents who were not aware of what dancing can be like. Maybe it actually served a purpose...
    I think that you are misreading Mr Faulkner's intent if you believe that this book was merely to serve as a warning to innocents that some males masquarading as gentlemen of the highest calibre were dancing merely to get a bit of skirt.

    I think that his language and writing is much stronger than that.

    On the flip side, I agree that "warning innocents" might not be a bad thing to do... are there any of them left?

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