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Geneva in Calvin's day, you could be fined or
imprisoned for celebrating Christmas. Now,
I'm not for fining people and punishing them
for celebrating Christmas. They'd like to do
that to us, but I'm not for that. I'm just letting
you know what was a reality at that time:
"In England in 1644, at the request of the
Westminster Assembly, the English Parliament
passed an act forbidding the observance of
Christmas, calling it a heathen holiday. When
Protestants attempted to rid itself of Roman
Catholicism, there also came an opposition
to Christmas that almost obliterated it entirely
in England. In England the Puritans could not
tolerate the celebrating for which there was
no biblical sanction. For a period of twelve
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