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To: DouglasKC

Massachusetts Puritans didn’t celebrate Christmas. A joyless ubunch that treated it like any other day.

By contrast the older Virginia colony decorated their homes and held parties and feasts all through the season.


265 posted on 12/25/2023 7:02:39 AM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham

“Massachusetts Puritans didn’t celebrate Christmas. “

Right. They were very anti-Christmas, mainly because the “mas” = “mass”. They had extremely unkind things to say about the pope.


291 posted on 12/25/2023 5:13:33 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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