[Claud]

Seriously? Did he ban Christmas in Geneva?

I’m almost positive Presbyterians today have Christmas, no?

[kawaii]

In the sixteenth century John Calvin objected to observing the Christian calendar — which includes Christmas and Easter — because he felt such celebrations promoted irreligious frivolity.

http://landscaping.about.com/cs/winterlandscaping1/a/christmas_trees.htm

[Dr. Eckleburg]

You err again, Kawaii.

Calvin looked askance at the celebration of Christmas in his day because of the corrupting of that celebration by Roman Catholicism (see I. VanDellen and M. Monsma, The Church Order Commentary, Zondervan, 1941, p. 273).

He did not, however, flatly forbid it as a transgression of the second commandment.

As I noted in my review of Wulfert de Greef's The Writings of John Calvin: An Introductory Guide (Baker, 1993), Calvin went along with the Geneva church's observance of the four great feast days that did not fall on a Sunday, including Christmas.

When the Council decided to abolish these observances, Calvin wrote a correspondent that, if he had been asked for advice, he would not have supported this decision (see de Greef, The Writings of John Calvin, p. 57). -- David S. Cason

[PAR35]

I’m almost positive Presbyterians today have Christmas, no?

Cromwell's crowd discouraged such activities. Most modern Presbyterians have conformed to the world.