True Weird Stuff

Revisiting The First War On Christmas

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Revisiting The First War On Christmas

We're off for the Thanksgiving holiday, so in honor of Christmas here's a tale about a group of Grinches who hated the holiday. The Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th Century, people like Governor William Bradford and Reverend Increase Mather, hated Christmas so much that they chose to ban it.

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