Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas!
Stop!
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Christmas is Banned!
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Christmas is Banned
Im Oliver Cromwell, and Im in charge now!
Christmas is a SIN!
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How Serious Were the Puritans?

• Learning Objective
• Understand what life was like when Puritans were
  in power.

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Who were the Puritans?

• The Puritans were a very strict (extreme) type of
  Protestants who were around in the Sixteenth and
  Seventeenth Centuries.
• They believed that the Church had become corrupt
  and sinful.
• They wanted to purify religion by using the Bible
  as the word of law on earth.

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But why ban Christmas?

• Christmas was a human invention, not in the
  Bible.
• It was too closely linked to old Pagan
  (Pre-Christian) beliefs
• The idea of a mass for Christ just smelled of
  Catholicism!
• So it was banned in England in 1647!

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That wasnt the only reason...

• Puritans also hated the...
• gluttony
• drunken-ness
• dancing
• gambling
• begging
• singing

Unlike this cat they were not party animals!
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How did they stop people?
Soldiers patrolled the streets they were even
on the sniff for the smell of roast goose!
Whats that I can smell?
Hay! As if I eat roast goose!
Hay, hay? Geddit?
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Puritan Names
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What else was banned?
Bear-baiting
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and
Cockfighting
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and
Horse-racing
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and
Wrestling
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and
Ale-houses (Pubs)
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and
Theatre
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And even...
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And if that makes you want to scream....
_at_!!
Even swearing was banned!
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In fact...on Sundays it was worse!
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and
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And above all...not going to....
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Its not as if Puritan churches were
comfortable....
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And the punishments?

• Usually fines

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But often...
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But often...
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But often...
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or
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or
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or
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Or even
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So....enjoy your Christmas holiday...
For their sakes!
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Writing a paragraph...

• I learnt today about the Puritans and their
  beliefs. They believed that people had to
  ........ because......
• Many things we take for granted were banned,
  such as...... I think this was because.......
• I think that Puritans were very serious
  because......however not everyone agreed with
  them because......