From Wikipedia:
>>However, in 17th century England, some groups such as the Puritans, strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast".
>>Following the Parliamentarian victory over Charles I during the English Civil War, England's Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647. Protests followed as pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans.
>>In Colonial America, the Pilgrims of New England shared radical Protestant disapproval of Christmas.The Plymouth Pilgrims put their loathing for the day into practice in 1620 when they spent their first Christmas Day in the New World working – thus demonstrating their complete contempt for the day.Non-Puritans in New England deplored the loss of the holidays enjoyed by the laboring classes in England.Christmas observance was outlawed in Boston in 1659.
Hmmm...
Every year around December 25, I become very High Church!
So the SJWs are heirs to the Puritans? Hmmm...
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many atheists work on Christmas Day? LOL
ReplyDeleteAnglo-Catholics have more fun!
ReplyDeleteDe verkar ha varit kristendomens wahabiter.
ReplyDeleteMan börjar ju undra lite över det där med "reformationen". Lite förmedlingsteologi hade kanske inte skadat, trots allt?
ReplyDeleteReformationen under sin tidiga hade en del likheter med kulturrevolution i Kina,
ReplyDeleteJa, det stämmer. Särskilt kalvinisterna, men det skedde en del överslag bland lutheraner också. Var inte Luther själv tvungen att ingripa mot ikonoklaster i Wittenberg som gick längre än honom i hans bortovaro?
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