Why was Christmas banned?

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In the 17th century, Christmas was completely banned in England and its territories, for 17 years. Shops were forced to stay open, public Christmas drinking and festive feasting were illegal, mince pies were seized, even putting up foliage as decoration was banned. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why a parliament full of protestant Puritans would make celebrating Christmas illegal
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@lewiscullen8236 4 года назад

Indeed, so always question an American who says the Pilgrims came to American to escape persecution. They went to be able to persecute others.

@helenpatterson3858 4 года назад

@yourmanwatson They were like the Jim Jones cult in a way.

@aethelwolfe3539 3 года назад

Dutch came here first for capitalism.

@janetlieb2507 2 года назад

Yes!

@magesalmanac6424 2 месяца назад

And the French came because they really loved wearing dead animals as hats

@_v_r_tt 4 года назад

Why did the ban last so much longer in Scotland?

@jasonchambers8010 4 года назад

Calvinism.

@theGuardian 4 года назад

The Kirk, The Church of Scotland, banned Christmas entirely in 1561, much earlier than the English parliament, declaring it a nasty popish invention. After Cromwell's death, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, all parliamentary legislation passed after 1637 was formally revoked. But the Scottish Kirk weren't up for bringing back Christmas, and in 1690 it reinstated its ban which then formally continued until 1958, when Christmas was finally made an official holiday in Scotland after a quarter of a millennium - Josh

@BlueSaphire70 11 месяцев назад

@@theGuardian Did the people who belong to the Church of Scotland follow that ban? I'm just curious.

@hetedeleambacht6608 5 месяцев назад

@@theGuardian And, during that period, did the Scotts actualy celebrated Christmas? Banning is one thing, what the people did was another, no?

@Goodiesfanful Год назад

Even today, there are fundamentalists who oppose Christmas because they think it’s Pagan.

@DerekPK Год назад

I think it's pagan.

@sirgalahad1376 Год назад

@@DerekPK And I disrespect you for that.

@Dirty_Dan02 8 месяцев назад

It is pagan. Jeremiah chapter 10. Learn not the way of the HEATHEN.

@danabattisto7634 8 месяцев назад

Right on right on right on!! Saturnalia it is. That's a fact

@1973Washu 5 месяцев назад

And there are atheists who oppose it for being too Christian

@ster2600 4 года назад

Fascinating. A very heartwarming and uplifting video to be released on such a tumultuous day. Thank you, The Guardian!

@beejamjam 4 года назад

This is kind of inaccurate. Cromwell never voted to ban Christmas, although his Parliament did.

@theGuardian 4 года назад

I may be wrong, but I don't think it's known definitively amongst historians, whether Cromwell voted for this ordinance or not. Although it stands to reason that he would support such a cause, since it was promoted by his fellow puritans in parliament. It was also not 'his' parliament at this time, Charles I was still king - Josh

@janetlieb2507 2 года назад

@@theGuardian maybe he was too busy killing The Irish!🙄

@blueshadez5228 3 года назад

*2020 anyone?*

@bugela8070 3 года назад

2021

@tobicoops498 3 года назад

christmas is illegal this year too!😀😀😀😀

@castlegate2015 7 месяцев назад

Shhh! Don't say the word Christmas, you'll get into trouble. 😢

@bigraf3178 4 года назад

Interesting

@NancyDrewe 4 года назад

Hmm, a ban on Christmas is even harsher than a ban on vaping in the States. Thanks, this was interesting. :)

@FrankAndrews 2 года назад

Vaping is worse than smoking

@ianmorton140 3 года назад

At no point did Cromwell say "Ban Christmas" it was the Puritan movement (Parliament) at that time

@davidcross9811 4 года назад

Seems like it’s happening again.

@wserthmar8908 3 года назад

Perhaps, it’s a true American tradition - to be the Puritans

@hooray600 3 года назад

how did the ordinary people think about oliver banning christmas

@arthurlewis9193 4 года назад

Was this posted by someone on work experience? it's feeble even by Guardian standards.

@joshuawaring4180 3 года назад

I’m sure The Guardian would love it.

@Kidraver555 3 года назад

Yes they are quasi puritan.

@Alloneword-cp2xw 3 года назад

Should happen again. No Christmas tree is put up in my house in December. I won't have lies celebrated in my house.

@jean-louisvaillardarpin1894 3 года назад

Ridiculous

@CaligulaInvictus 2 года назад

You must be a load of fun.

@Alloneword-cp2xw 2 года назад

@@CaligulaInvictus I am when not being lied to.

@janetlieb2507 2 года назад

Fine! But you have no right to dictate to others!!🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

@Goodiesfanful Год назад

I don’t see how a Christmas tree is a lie. I suppose works of fiction are banned in your house too, because you think they’re lies?

@Kidraver555 3 года назад

Cromwell was right about hedonistic christmas celebrations leading to a decadent selfish society.

@marcustuliuscicero4605 2 года назад

Cromwell was a psychotic religious extremist. He did that for power and control, not because he cared about society's welfare.

@FrankAndrews 2 года назад

@@marcustuliuscicero4605 he didn't want it, he even mocked the idea of being labeled a king.

@marcustuliuscicero4605 2 года назад

@@FrankAndrews He was much worse than any previous king England had had. He not only killed English people's fun by banning even sports and restaurants, but also committed a genocide against Irish people.

@jacobcox4565 2 года назад

@@marcustuliuscicero4605 Jeez, this guy was a real life cartoon villain, huh.

@Goodiesfanful Год назад

@@marcustuliuscicero4605 Cromwell was the closest England ever got to living under a dictatorship.

@angelwhite2463 4 года назад

I hate Christmas, but I love Jesus

@Thrill_Hou 4 года назад

Angel White I’m the opposite 😛

@giovannicorraliza8552 2 года назад

@@Thrill_Hou pls repent friend

@pamelqtaylor8335 Год назад

So you hate the day the savior was born. Intresting

@angelwhite2463 Год назад

@@pamelqtaylor8335 That date was chosen by Roman emperor Constantine 300+ years after the fact.

@castlegate2015 7 месяцев назад

Christmas the Amnual Shopping Festival

@MaggieOliver68 4 года назад

That comment you just made vanish is shameful

@Cocky_Poppy_TV 4 года назад

Its the word je sus why your comment vanished

@floydhill9265 2 года назад

This is only part of the whole story.

@castlegate2015 7 месяцев назад

Where can we find the rest of the whole story?

@geradbrown1663 Год назад

Cromwell and Jadis would always make it Winter but never Christmas.

@MilesBellas 2 года назад

MENTION YULE ?!

@YochananMat Год назад

Cromwell Tzadak - about this anyway. (I shall have to say some hail maryz for clicking on a Guardian vid)

@seahorse4407 2 года назад

Cromwell government was just as same as contemporary government of Afghanistan. They persecuted others in the name of puritanism, that's why some Britons are fled to Northern America.

@1526andrews Год назад

Not quite right. The people who boarded the Mayflower were of Cromwell's ilk. They left England after the restoration so they could set up a Puritan paradise.

@GavinLepley 7 месяцев назад

I don’t think the martial law of the Taliban’s regime is any comparison to the Puritan theocracy of 17th century England.

@StellaMariaGiulia 4 года назад

Virtually every tradition or festivity in Christianity is borrowed from another religion. It would be helpful keeping it in mind when people are feeling particularly zealous about their religion.

@StellaMariaGiulia 4 года назад

Fabrizio sorry to burst your bubble, sending you a hug and wishing you happy holidays.

@DOYLETWAT 4 года назад

How educated your opinion is. You clearly have a very high IQ and a delicious talent for pointing out the obvious.

@tommyh4116 4 года назад

Yawn

@hetedeleambacht6608 5 месяцев назад

@@DOYLETWAT jealous?

@craphead9842 Год назад

fable fable and more fable.. Tony cuenca

@marcusrobinson5218 Год назад

Christmas should be banned

@Zacky51188 Год назад

It's not the solution.

@castlegate2015 7 месяцев назад

As a shopping festival, yes I agree. 😅

@cat-yf5uz 3 года назад

Oliver and Boris are both the same

@janetlieb2507 2 года назад

Yes!!!🌛

@anitachopping 3 месяца назад

Great stuff! Constantine created this holiday. He pretended he was now Christian, made it a state religion and slapped both Christmas and Easter on top of pagan holidays. I love both times of the year.