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   Supermoosie (supermoosie@mastodon.au)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 07:32:51 JST Supermoosie

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   • Today I learned

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   Despite right wing commentary today, the only "war on Christmas" has been from the religious.

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     Today I learned (todayilearned@noc.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 07:32:52 JST Today I learned

     TIL that Christmas was banned by the English Parliment in 1644 because many of the Puritans believed it was "too closely associated with Catholicism" and it had simply become too drunken and debauched.

     https://www.cromwellmuseum.org/cromwell/did-oliver-cromwell-ban-christmas
     #til #todayilearned
     https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1psa8w3/til_that_christmas_was_banned_by_the_english/

     Steve's Place repeated this.