Posted on 12/24/2023 3:10:51 PM PST by Skooz
Well... I was doing an emergency roof repair until a bit after midnight on Christmas Eve, then it was a 90 minute drive home. Then “decompress” and wonder when my legs will fall off, while wifey was watching a movie on her laptop.
Christmas Day was ok though. :-)
LOL...Oh you poor soul.
No; I’M not saying it. It is what it is. You’re embarrassing yourself.
“Why were the Puritans so opposed to these celebrations? In short, it came down to scripture and a Protestant desire to scrub Christian life of Catholic influence. If it wasn’t referenced in the bible, it shouldn’t be observed. And because many of the 17th-century Christmas traditions in question had ties to both Roman Catholicism and to an older pagan winter solstice festival, the Puritans said they had to go. Christmas celebrations in England ended up being outlawed for 13 years, and across the Atlantic, similar practices were deemed illegal for more than two decades in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, marking America’s very first ‘War on Christmas’.”
Much info if using a search engine. Much more info from deeper study of these people (my ancestors, who obviously were no fun at all), which was my hobby many years ago.
The World Book Encyclopedia defines “Christmas”: “The word Christmas comes from “Cristes Maesse”, an early English phrase that means ‘Mass of Christ.’ It is interesting to note that the word ‘Mass’, as used by the Roman Catholics, has traditionally been rejected by the so-called Protestants, such as Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and so on. The word ‘Mass’ is strictly a Catholic word and thus, so is ‘Christ-Mass’.”
And I welcome any feedback...:)
I have two books on deck, and am looking forward to getting one done in record time so I can start the other one!
Hope you had a Merry Christmas, wishing you all the best in 2024!
Not all day alone, but definitely by bedtime at the house.
Nothing wrong with that. I like to remember the old Merry Melodies Sniffles cartoon where he tried to stay awake for Santa. That’s me!
This thread is a blessing. I am going to reread it tonight.
Bless you all Freepers!
The best of the Day of Christmas and Grace’s of the New Year!
Stil should have done more. Now older sister has entered a care home. Need to do right by her.
Thank you very much, and God bless you too🙏🏻🙂
Very sorry to read that your dearest soulmate has departed this life 😔
My deepest sympathy is going out to you at this immensely difficult time 🙁💔
Still, I would like to thank you very much, sir, for your well-wishes.🙂
If I had claimed that the name “Massachusetts” had some connection to Catholicism’s “Mass” I would indeed be embarrassing myself.
But I didn’t. And being descended from Jamestown colonials I’ve read more than most about colonial history, including the oddball Christmas hating witch hunters of New England.
For some reason pop historians love to pretend that Puritan Massachusetts was the founding of America. But Jamestown was founded a dozen years before Plymouth and its tolerant Christian tradition of celebrating Christmas remains normative American practice.
Humorless and oppressive Puritan legalism still exists but now in a secularized leftwing version. It’s alive and well and still at war with the American culture that refuses to obey it.
“But Jamestown was founded a dozen years before Plymouth and its tolerant Christian tradition of celebrating Christmas remains normative American practice.”
I KNOW. EVERYBODY KNOWS. But the subject is the PURITANS! the PURITANS had a problem with Christmas. Jamestown didn’t. PURITANS WEREN’T AT JAMESTOWN. Good grief.
I felt really bad for the dog. He had to live there. But him and I enjoyed each other’s company for the few hours I was there.
How was your Christmas? I woke up sick, and spent the day sleeping, until my son came by. I posted, because I saw keyword aloneagainnaturally. I liked that song.
...Then took wifey to airport (traveling to see some of her friends) on the 26th, and also heard from my youngest brother that my next youngest brother is very ill. Talk about your bad timing...
Testing new keyboard MERRY NEW YEAR!!!
Did the Mayflower have a Madam?
“Did the Mayflower have a Madam?”
Could be, but probably not. All the passengers weren’t religious. There were “saints” (coming for religious freedom), and what Bradford, Brewster, etc., called “strangers” (coming for other reasons).
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