You've likely heard the story of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' — but what about the one where the Puritans in Massachusetts banned the holiday altogether?
An engraved illustration of William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth Colony, confiscating toys from Pilgrims on Christmas Day. Via Getty Images
"The Puritans were very concerned with a very scripturally-based form of worship," Beecher-Field said.There's not scriptural evidence for Jesus Christ's birth on December the 25th. Christmas was added to Christ about 400 years after he was alive." Beecher-Field said the Puritans were also heavily invested in a social hierarchy defined by class. He pointed to the famed"City Upon a Hillsermon by the colony's first governor, John Winthrop. In it, Winthrop compares society to a human body.
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