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12-26-2007, 18:17
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| Icing Queen   |  Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 In Britain, the Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 (which has not yet been repealed) states that every citizen must attend a Christian church service on Christmas Day, and must not use any kind of vehicle to get to the service There are a large number of Britons who break this law every year. The law may have been intended to encourage humility by forcing even the wealthy to attend the church on foot, or perhaps it was simply to avoid the traffic and parking crush that universal attendance would otherwise have brought about. And other British Christmas traditions: http://www.myopenenglish.com/open/in...do_pdf=1&id=49
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12-26-2007, 22:14
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| Monkey Mouse   | Re: Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 Leave it to Oliver Cromwell to take the fun out of things.
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12-27-2007, 05:36
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| NCO   | Re: Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 Yes Anglosaxon politicians have a habit of doing that for some reason!
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12-27-2007, 08:49
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| Racy Ol' Lady   | Re: Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 Cromwell's Christianity wasn't all that far from Islam, was it. In practice, at least. And Islam stands ready to replace it, if the British allow that to happen. What a travesty that would be! There is such freedom in Christianity and Judaism, both of which would be replaced by Islam, in which there is no freedom at all.
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12-27-2007, 11:26
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| Junior Officer   | Re: Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 1551 very interesting......seems everyone has strange laws still on the books
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