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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: American Spirit who wrote (261634)11/22/2005 1:00:49 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1572953
 
"Our Founding Fathers were quasi athiests actually. "

Not all were Deists. Still, the more Puritan ones viewed Christmas as an artificial holiday, having nothing to do with the Bible, and many viewed Christmas as a British holiday. Congress regularly met on Christmas day, well into the 1800s.

It didn't really take off as a major holiday until the Victorian Era.
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