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Beliefs by conservative & liberal Christians abou
« on: November 16, 2006, 10:09:55 PM »
Historical celebration
Ban on Christmas
From the middle of the 17th century until the early 18th century the Christian Puritans suppressed Christmas celebrations in Europe and America.
The Puritan movement began during the reign of Queen Elizabeth in England (1558-1603). They believed in strict moral codes, plenty of prayer and close following of New Testament scripture.
As the date of Christ's birth is not in the Gospels the Puritans thought that Christmas was too strongly linked to the Pagan Roman festival and were opposed to all celebration of it, particularly the lively, boozy celebrations inherited from Saturnalia. In 1644 all Christmas activities were banned in England. This included decorating houses with evergreens and eating mince pies.
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Re:  Beliefs by conservative & liberal Christians
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2006, 10:27:32 PM »
*sigh*

It's not even Thanksgiving and we're getting christmas spam...
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Re:  Beliefs by conservative & liberal Christians
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2006, 10:51:08 PM »
But at least it's educational Christmas spam. I think.
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Re:  Beliefs by conservative & liberal Christians
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2006, 12:30:24 PM »
well, i don't know that I can speak for the quality of accuracy of any information, but again, at least it's in the right forum and it doesn't appear to be porn.
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Re:  Beliefs by conservative & liberal Christians
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2006, 01:53:03 PM »
Shouldn't we at least not give his links hits?
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Re:  Beliefs by conservative & liberal Christians
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2006, 02:24:39 PM »
I was going to say I have no problem with them, since we are in the "Rants" forum, which at least says shamelessly plug your own site. But now that I've hovered, the links are just mortgage ads. Which is just deceptive.

/me eliminates the links.
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