Puritans Actually Hated Christmas …
“The main reason Puritans didn’t like Christmas was that it was a raucously popular holiday in late medieval England. Each year, rich landowners would throw open their doors to the poor and give them food and drink as an act of charity. The poorest man in the parish was named the “Lord of Misrule,” and the rich would wait upon him at feasts that often descended into bawdy drunkenness.”
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23 December 2011
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Interesting article, I did not know that. Those Puritans sound like an exceedingly boring bunch. I like this from the article as a counter-point:
In his Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1739, Philadelphian Benjamin Franklin wrote of Christmas: “O blessed Season! Lov’d by Saints and Sinners / For long Devotions, or for longer Dinners.”
Merry Christmakwanzukkah!
Happy Saturnalius to ALL!!!
And Happy Festivus to you and yours!
Uhh, neat?