VENTURA, CA - Evangelicals have spoken, and it turns out their favorite Puritan is none other than Paul Bunyan. In a recent survey of self-identified Evangelical Christians aged 30-55 performed by The Barna Group, the 300-foot-tall lumberjack of American folklore beat out other Puritans like former presidential candidate John Edwards, actor-director Robert Redford, and hip-hop artist/reality TV star John Flavel Flav by a wide margin.

Respondents noted that their favorite aspects of Bunyan's ministry included his allegorical work like Pilgrim's Progress and The Holy War , his unwavering faith in God even through persecution, and his creation of the Grand Canyon with the assistance of his gargantuan blue ox, Babe. Those surveyed were also particularly fond of the great Puritan thinke

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