A Puritan Christmas

Slide 1: Merry Christmas!

Slide 3: Merry Christmas!

Slide 4: Christmas is Banned!

Slide 5: Christmas is Banned I’m Oliver Cromwell, and I’m in charge now! Christmas is a SIN!

Slide 6: How Serious Were the Puritans? Learning Objective: Understand what life was like when Puritans were in power.

Slide 7: Who were the Puritans? • The Puritans were a very strict (extreme) type of Protestants who were around in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. • They believed that the Church had become corrupt and sinful. • They wanted to purify religion by using the Bible as the word of law on earth.

Slide 8: But why ban Christmas? • Christmas was a human invention, not in the Bible. • It was too closely linked to old Pagan (Pre- Christian) beliefs • The idea of a ‘mass’ for Christ just smelled of Catholicism! So it was banned in England in 1647!

Slide 9: That wasn’t the only reason... • Puritans also hated the... gluttony drunken-ness dancing gambling begging singing Unlike this cat – they were not party animals!

Slide 10: How did they stop people? Soldiers patrolled the streets – they were even on the sniff for the smell of roast goose! What’s that I can smell? Hay! As if I eat roast goose! Hay, hay? Geddit?

Slide 11: Puritan Names Free Gift Earth Dust Discipline Faith Delivery Kill-sin Sorry-for- Ashes Fear-not sin Fear-God Praise-God Increased Mercy-me And... The-Lord-Is-Near Wrestling-with-the-devil

Slide 12: What else was banned? Bear-baiting

Slide 13: and Cockfighting

Slide 14: and Horse-racing

Slide 15: and Wrestling

Slide 16: and Ale-houses (Pubs)

Slide 17: and Theatre

Slide 18: And even...

Slide 19: And if that makes you want to scream.... @#&*$%!! Even swearing was banned!

Slide 20: In fact...on Sundays it was worse!

Slide 21: and

Slide 22: And above all...not going to....

Slide 23: It’s not as if Puritan churches were comfortable....

Slide 24: And the punishments? • Usually fines

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Slide 32: So....enjoy your Christmas holiday... For their sakes!

Slide 34: Writing a paragraph... • I learnt today about the Puritans and their beliefs. They believed that people had to ........ because...... Many things we take for granted were banned, such as...... I think this was because....... I think that Puritans were very serious because......however not everyone agreed with them because......