So you’re saying that Puritan hatred of the Pope was their reason for hating Christmas?
Did the Puritans hate the Lutherans and Anglicans and other Christmas celebrators too?
Well actually they probably did, since banishing people who weren’t in complete agreement with Puritan doctrine was one of their practices.
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’.”