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years, the staunch Puritans kept the shackles
on Christmas making it an ordinary day of
business and even a day of fasting. Yet with
the restoration in 1660, the citizens reclaimed
Christmas. The Puritans looked at Christmas
as a work of Satan. The Puritans regarded it
as a pagan holiday.”
They went quite far with this.
"In America and Protestant America and
the founding fathers, many of them considered
Christmas as a popish holiday. It was not till
the 19th century that Christmas had any
religious significance in Protestant churches
in America. In America people stood against
the celebration from 1620 to 1750.”
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