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|date=December 22, 2008}}</ref> Additionally, the celebration of Christmas was banned on more than one occasion within certain Protestant groups, such as the Puritans, due to concerns that it was too pagan or unbiblical.<ref name="Durston">Durston, Chris, [http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=12890&aid=&tgid=&amid=12890&g12890=x&g9130=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x "Lords of Misrule: The Puritan War on Christmas 1642–60"] {{wayback|url=http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=12890&aid=&tgid=&amid=12890&g12890=x&g9130=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x |date=20070310013925 }}, ''History Today'', December 1985, '''35''' (12) pp. 7 – 14. {{Wayback |date=20070310013925 |url=http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=12890&aid=&tgid=&amid=12890&g12890=x&g9130=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x |title= }}</ref> The [[Seventh-day Adventist]] and also the [[Jehovas Witnesse | |date=December 22, 2008}}</ref> Additionally, the celebration of Christmas was banned on more than one occasion within certain Protestant groups, such as the Puritans, due to concerns that it was too pagan or unbiblical.<ref name="Durston">Durston, Chris, [http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=12890&aid=&tgid=&amid=12890&g12890=x&g9130=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x "Lords of Misrule: The Puritan War on Christmas 1642–60"] {{wayback|url=http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=12890&aid=&tgid=&amid=12890&g12890=x&g9130=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x |date=20070310013925 }}, ''History Today'', December 1985, '''35''' (12) pp. 7 – 14. {{Wayback |date=20070310013925 |url=http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=12890&aid=&tgid=&amid=12890&g12890=x&g9130=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x |title= }}</ref> The [[Seventh-day Adventist]] and also the [[Jehovas Witnesse]] reject Christmas celebration. | ||
[[File:ChristAsSol.jpg|thumb|right|Mosaic of Jesus as ''Christo Sole'' (Christ the Sun) in Mausoleum M in the pre-fourth-century necropolis under St Peter's Basilica in Rome.<ref>Kelly, Joseph F., ''The Origins of Christmas'', Liturgical Press, 2004, p. 67-69.</ref>]] | [[File:ChristAsSol.jpg|thumb|right|Mosaic of Jesus as ''Christo Sole'' (Christ the Sun) in Mausoleum M in the pre-fourth-century necropolis under St Peter's Basilica in Rome.<ref>Kelly, Joseph F., ''The Origins of Christmas'', Liturgical Press, 2004, p. 67-69.</ref>]] |