Today, piety often carries a vaguely negative connotation, evidenced by the secondary definition provided by one dictionary: âa belief that is accepted with unthinking conventional reverenceâthe accepted pieties of our time.â Itâs the âunthinkingâ part of this definition that does disservice to true piety.
Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Middletown is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the Susquehanna River, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Harrisburg. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 8,901. It is part of the HarrisburgâCarlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Middletown, Ohio. Aerial view of Middletown. Middletown is a city located in Butler and Warren counties in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Formerly in Lemon, Turtlecreek, and Franklin townships, Middletown was incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly on February 11, 1833, and became a city in 1886. The population of Middletown as of the 2010 census was 48,694. It is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.