Season's Greetings to all....Peace on Earth, Goodwill to all men, (and women).
Excellent post! The Puritans and Pilgrims didn't celebrate Christmas. They were opposed to it because the Anglicans, and Catholics celebrated it, and they felt that those denominations were Apostate. Now the Dominionists, who are the descendants of the Puritans get all huffy about Season's Greetings and such...go figure. And those trees with a cross that is really over the top!
When I've travelled in Europe, and seen all the cathedrals, shrines etc. I always think about how it was all built on the blood, sweat, and sacrifice of the peasants and serfs. I came away from seeing all that with the thought of how visionary the early founders were in rejecting the church and state marriage that represented the governments of Europe in the middle ages.
The founding people of our Government were considered rebels of their time. Democracy was considered an experiment, as most of the world was still in an agrarian, feudalistic, enslaved situation.
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