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Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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Garrison Davis talks about the first time Christians almost got rid of Christmas. The real war on Christmas is the war to sanitize it, he says. Garrison: Medieval Christmas is the best of all Christmases. "As the light returns eventually delayed so will the warmth"

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