To: ConservativeStatement
I’m fascinated with this part of our history.
Read “The Battle For Christmas” by Stephen Nissembaum for a really in-depth look at Christmas in this period.
To: ConservativeStatement
Calvinists are like that....although I believe they’ve loosened up since.
3 posted on
12/22/2015 5:09:19 PM PST by
livius
To: ConservativeStatement
A distant relative was the subject of this play:
4 posted on
12/22/2015 5:11:12 PM PST by
o_1_2_3__
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To: ConservativeStatement
Not until 1856 did Christmas, along with Washington's Birthday and the Fourth of July, finally become a public holiday in Massachusetts. Calvinists rejected holidays (Holy Days) like Christmas (Christ's Mass) as too Catholic. More generally, they rejected any feasting and frivolity.
5 posted on
12/22/2015 5:31:25 PM PST by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: ConservativeStatement
The Puritans were a bunch of whackos.
To: ConservativeStatement
Just goes to prove that the people of Massachusetts have been unhappy anal-retentives, obsessed with making everyone else unhappy, since forever.
Seems to go with the territory.
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