Explanation: Oliver Cromwell was the ruler of the UK after the execution of their king, during which a short-lived military dictatorship was instituted in place of a monarchy. He was a Puritan, a member of a strain of Protestant Christian belief in the early modern period which regarded much of then-modern society as decadent and corrupt.
One of their targets of ire in particular was… Christmas. For being too celebratory and self-indulgent. And Catholic.
Explanation: Oliver Cromwell was the ruler of the UK after the execution of their king, during which a short-lived military dictatorship was instituted in place of a monarchy. He was a Puritan, a member of a strain of Protestant Christian belief in the early modern period which regarded much of then-modern society as decadent and corrupt.
One of their targets of ire in particular was… Christmas. For being too celebratory and self-indulgent. And Catholic.
Notably, records show it was Parlament, not Cromwell himself, which cancelled Christmas.
Sounds a lot like a precursor to the Taliban
Yeah he was basically if the taliban was Christian and doing genocide in Ireland
And then they moved to the now-US 🫠
Yeah, there are definite similarities.