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a thousand dark and ignorant years the Catholic Church held sway over the entire Christian world. The Christians dared not have a conscience of their own until the fulfillment of Daniel's prophesy. Then a great reformation took place.

In 1550, in an edict against observing pagan festivals, John Calvin (Jean Chauvin in France) placed a ban against observing Christmas. His reformers, called "Chauvinists Protestants" were quick to obey, because John Calvin also was into burning heretics.

John Knox, a Scottish reformer, also confronted the Catholic Church on this issue, contending that true worship must be instituted by God and not from the traditions of men. By this time, God has become a generic title without a name. His name is just God!

England bans Christmas and Easter
Christmas and Easter were banned by the Church of Scotland in the sixteen hundreds at about the same time King James ordered the English rewriting of the bible.

David Calderwood of the Church of Scotland said, "The Judaical days had once that honor, as to be appointed by God Himself; but the anniversary days appointed by men have not like honor. This opinion of Christ's nativity on the 25th day of December was bred at Rome. Nay, let us utter the truth; December-Christmas is a just imitation of the December-Saturnalia of the ethnic Romans, and so used as if Bacchus and not Messiah was the God of Christians."

In England, June 1647, Parliament passed legislation abolishing Christmas and other "pagan" holidays. The wording goes like this:
"For as much as the feast of the nativity of Christ, Easter, and other ferstivals, commonly called holy days, have been heretofore superstitiously used and observed; be it ordained that the said feasts, and all other festivals, commonly called holy days, be no longer observed as festivals."

The Puritans both in England and America were against all things Catholic, including Christmas, Easter, and Sunday.
The Grench that Saved Christmas:
You have probably heard the story of the Grinch that stole Christmas but who brought it back? It was the Catholics that stole the day from the common people and turned it into the "Christ-mass", but if it were banned so thoroughly how come do we have it now? Believe it or not, we have the lowly potato to thank for us knowing anything about Christmas. The celebration of Christmas was on its way out in all the protestant world when the potato famine in Ireland brought such an influx of Irish pagans into America that Christmas again became

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