“Right. They were very anti-Christmas, mainly because the “mas” = “mass”. They had extremely unkind things to say about the pope.”
I don’t know how disliking the Pope had any bearing on the Puritan’s Christmas-hating.
The Protestants of Virginia and the rest of the British Colonies shared an anti-Catholic sentiment but they happily celebrated Christmas, unlike the joyless witch killing weirdos of Plymouth.
Moreover “Massachusetts” is an Indian word and totally unrelated to the Catholic “Mass”.
I have lived in MA my entire life….I never heard anyone thinking Mass was in any way related to the Catholic mass .
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You need to bone up on that history, and then you’d know the significance (insignificance?) of the pope to them.
The Protestants of VA, and sects in the Colonies, are not the Puritans. The topic here is the Puritans.