This article is by Jerome Tuccille, FYI.
Time to bash the stereotypical Puritans. No doubt we will see some outrageous comparisons.
It is lunacy to call this something that was done in America. Its the same when the liberal progressives try to peddle out the Salem Witch Trials as though its something Americans did. They use such casual linkages to diminish Christianity...no other reason.
Christmas: Banned in Early America
http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/protestantisms-anti-christmas-crusade
The Puritan crusade against Christmas was really a crusade against Catholicism
Many may be surprised to learn that Christmas used to be illegal in America — all thanks to Protestants.
The story begins in England, just before Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell came to power. After crushing royalist uprisings throughout England, Wales and Scotland in the English Civil Wars and overseeing the trial and execution of King Charles I, Cromwell declared himself Lord Protector of the Realm in 1653. He ruled for a brief five years, but during that time did what he could to do away with “papist” elements, implementing his Puritan reforms with zeal.
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My direct ancestor was murdered by Cromwell. he wasn’t much of a Christian. Don’t have any problem with Christmas.
The anti-CHRISTians just hate public displays of joy and love.
One of the marvels of the American experiment was its acknowledgment and tolerance of diverse religions despite Europe's history of religious wars.
(NOT an impediment to public exercise of any religion).
The system has worked pretty well for over 200 years but with success comes complacency and dissent.
Today we have complacency & dissent in both the religious and secular fabric of society...in the face of the cyclic rise of an unenlightened & unreformed Islamic socio/political/pseudo religious society (Not a race) that was devised in opposition to what were then the dominant religious entities across the region.
A system that was & is inherently expansionist and brutal.
Today we are in the grips of complacency/dissent versus the same unreformed & unenlightened movement that Martel fought off two centuries ago.
Those who do not learn from history...
He allows it.
All He asks is that we choose sides - then He will conduct the battle.