[HN Gopher] Christmas under the Puritans (1960)
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       Christmas under the Puritans (1960)
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-12-22 00:10 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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       | sophacles wrote:
       | What an appropriate username to submit this article :D.
        
       | bencollier49 wrote:
       | Ha, an appropriate topic, given the lockdown restrictions on
       | Christmas which we just narrowly avoided in the UK.
        
       | hprotagonist wrote:
       | reminding people that the trope "hurr durr christmas is just
       | saturnalia" is english protestant agitprop that was cooked up
       | during the reformation to stomp on the catholics a bit is, shall
       | we say, regularly entertaining but rarely fruitful.
        
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