I mentioned yesterday briefly the Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

It was kind of interesting the history of this.

And there's an interview on World Magazine, WNG.org.

They talked to Bruce Forbes.

He's a holiday historian and an author of Christmas, A Candid History.

He said, you know, everybody thinks, well, this is the way they celebrated Christmas back in Victorian England.

He said, actually, it wasn't a portrait of Victorian Christmas at the time.

It actually, Dickens actually made Christmas popular when it was not popular at the time.

And he points out, going back to the 1600s, English Puritans tried

to stamp out Christmas celebrations based on two main objections. Number one, they said, well,

it's not in early Christianity, so we're not called to do it. Number two, is there too much

wild partying going on? And again, the way I look at it is, you know, some people look at one day as holier than another.

Other people see every day as alike.

Let everybody follow their conscience.

And it depends on how you celebrate it.

Is it going to be wild partying? Is it going to be

rampant materialism? Or is it going to be an opportunity to reflect on the incarnation of Christ

and his purpose? And so Parliament even went so far as to ban Christmas in 1647. The historian

Forbes said at some points they would send town criers around on Christmas Eve

crying, no Christmas, no Christmas.

What would Megan Kelly say?

And Bill O'Reilly, these are the people who used to always talk about that were on Christmas

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