11 Facts About Christmas controversies

Later, in the 20th century, Christmas controversies celebrations were prohibited under the doctrine of state atheism in the Soviet Union.

In Nazi Germany, organized religion as a whole was attacked as an enemy of the state and Christmas controversies celebrations were corrupted so as to serve the Party's racist ideology.

In 1647, the Puritan-led English Parliament banned the celebration of Christmas controversies, replacing it with a day of fasting and considering it "a popish festival with no biblical justification", and a time of wasteful and immoral behaviour.

Protests followed as pro-Christmas controversies rioting broke out in several cities and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans.

Historian Ronald Hutton believes the current state of observance of Christmas controversies is largely the result of a mid-Victorian revival of the holiday, spearheaded by Charles Dickens, who "linked worship and feasting, within a context of social reconciliation".

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Christmas controversies notes that there was a deliberate effort to prevent children from becoming greedy in response.

Christmas controversies was not proclaimed a holiday by the United States Congress until 1870.

In Xmas and Christmas controversies: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus, Lewis gives a satire of the observance of two simultaneous holidays in "Niatirb" from the supposed view of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.

Christmas controversies Day is recognized as an official federal holiday by the United States government.

In 2009 in West Jerusalem, the Lobby for Jewish Values, with support of the Jerusalem Rabbinate, handed out fliers condemning Christmas controversies and called for a boycott of "restaurants and hotels that sell or put up Christmas controversies trees and other 'foolish' Christian symbols".

Celebration of Christmas controversies has occasionally been criticized by Muslims in Turkey.