The Post Reformation pastors and theologians of the day, following the Reformers, abolished Easter, among other things. They for whom all days are holy can have no holidays.” (See, for example, The Sermons of John Calvin Upon the Fifth Book of Moses called Deuteronomie, trans. The Reformers argued, what was intended as a crutch for others had become a cast for Christians who willingly accepted the obligation of constant worship. 79-95) “The New England like Reformed Protestants everywhere, rejected traditional Roman Catholic and Anglican beliefs and practices that organized time around consecrated churches, railed-off altars, holy shrines, miraculous wells, and that supposed the flow of time to be an irregular succession of holy days and sacred seasons. As Walsh states in his “Holy Time and Sacred Space in Puritan New England” (Walsh, American Quarterly, Vol. In actuality, here in the America’s only after the bloodshed Civil War did Easter “begin again” to be accepted.
Neither Puritans or Pilgrims had use for ceremonies associated with religious festivals invented in either pagan history, or reinvented by Roman Catholicism. For example, Easter was not popular with the Puritans or the Pilgrim settlers in America. See the “Easter Name Controversy” POST SCRIPT 1Įaster has little to do with real Christianity. Easter: The Devil’s Holiday – Recalling the fundamentals of the Papist Holiday and what we should be thinking about as true Christians.
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