Monday, December 26, 2011

The Surprising Truth: Christians Once Banned Christmas

The Surprising Truth: Christians Once Banned Christmas: "It may seem like Christmas has always been celebrated in the United States, but that's not the case. In fact, the joyous religious holiday was actually banned in America for several decades – by Christians themselves.

The original war on Christmas was waged during the sixteenth and seventeenth century by Puritans, or Protestant Christians who believed that people needed strict rules to be religious and that any kind of merrymaking was sinful...."

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