PURITANS DID NOT APPROVE OF CHRISTMAS "When Christmas Was Banned… By Christians " | The Resurgent

"Puritans hated Christmas because, even then it was largely a secular holiday. Christmas was celebrated with raucous partying and drinking, two things that were very unpopular among the Puritans, who were literally "puritanical." After all, the Pilgrims had left Holland a few years earlier to escape this sort of sinful culture. They didn't want it follow..."

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