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ExciteBike66

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10. But the "cultural" viewpoint is what I am talking about.

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #7)

Fri Nov 17, 2017, 01:10 PM

Nov 2017

The notion that the "American culture" originally celebrated Christmas is wrong. The earliest *recognizable* settlers (i.e. the English kind, not Spanish or French) in our cultural myth outlawed Christmas.

Anyway, my post was kind of tongue-in-cheek.

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Interesting fact I just learned about Christmas in America. [View all] ExciteBike66 Nov 2017 OP

do only reason we acknowledge Christmas in this country is so gopiscrap Nov 2017 #1

Support small retailers this holiday season--- in person and online crazycatlady Nov 2017 #17

Christmas was considered a "popish" (i.e., Catholic) holiday The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2017 #2

THANKS K&R wow just looked up wiki Christmas in Puritan New England. Illegal at certain colonial lunasun Nov 2017 #3

I thought this was funny: ExciteBike66 Nov 2017 #4

I laughed at that also. Doreen Nov 2017 #13

You forget.. Facts are immaterial. LakeArenal Nov 2017 #5

Lol! You know I did not forget that! nt ExciteBike66 Nov 2017 #6

Some evangelicals of various stripes re moving away from celebrating Christmas for several reasons. WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2017 #7

But the "cultural" viewpoint is what I am talking about. ExciteBike66 Nov 2017 #10

The only reason these conservatives are up in arms Mariana Nov 2017 #16

I doubt that the Puritans wished each other "Happy Holidays" either. FarCenter Nov 2017 #8

True, ExciteBike66 Nov 2017 #9

It seems like the Puritans did not wish each other "Happy" anything at all. Doreen Nov 2017 #15

And then there are a lot of us who do not celebrate Christmas at all today frazzled Nov 2017 #11

The crap they splutter does not have to be logical or factual to them. dixiegrrrrl Nov 2017 #12

That's why the bible is such a powerful tool ExciteBike66 Nov 2017 #14