We are dominated by a secular elite which hates Islam every bit as much it hates Christianity. This elite of atheists and metro-political despisers is also a cowardly elite and dare not attack Islam for fear of getting its corporate throat slit. But it finds it useful to invoke an allegedly outraged Islamic sensitivity in order to persecute the Christian faith - Peter Mullen

In 1550, the Genevan magistrates ordered ‘that the celebration of our Saviour’s nativity should be deferred [from 25 December] to the Sabbath-day following, and that there should be no other feast days, except...the Lord’s Day’ (Theodore Beza, ‘Life of Calvin’, Tracts and Letters, Banner of Truth, vol.1 pp.lv-lvi). ‘Calvin...did not think it worthwhile to make a quarrel about it’, says Beza.

It was a break with the practice of the other Reformed churches. Berne and Zurich observed Christmas—in fact, four major gospel ‘feasts’—and they were offended. Thus, on 2 January 1551, Calvin wrote to Bernese pastor, John Haller: the abolition of the feast days here has given grievous offence...I can solemnly testify that it was accomplished without my knowledge, and without my desire... Since my recall, I have pursued the moderate course of keeping Christ’s birth-day as you are wont to do... There were however...certain inflexible individuals who did not comply with the common custom from some perverse malice or other. Diversity would not be tolerated in a rightly constituted church... Yet there is no reason why men should be so much provoked, if we use our liberty as the edification of the church demands (Tracts and Letters, vol.5, pp.288-9). - Peter Naylor

As for the other festival days, we have removed them as much as possible from us, especially those which have been introduced through manifest idolatry... Nevertheless, because there are certain festivals devoted, since ancient times, to the celebration of certain mysteries concerning our redemption, we use Christian liberty, and submit all to edification, according to the different circumstances of places, times and persons’ Beza, The Christian Faith, 5.41).

And as we judge the celebration of the natal anniversary to be most pious and useful, still we think the precise observance of the 25th of December rests rather upon custom...than upon any apostolic command or example - Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 1679-85, Topic 13, Q. 10, vol. 2, p.339).

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