Why was Christmas Banned in America?

It may seem like Christmas has always been celebrated in the United States, but that's not the case. In fact, Christmas was banned in America for several decades by Christians themselves. Most Americans today are unaware that Christmas was banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681. The original war on Christmas was waged during the sixteenth and seventeenth century by Puritans, or Protestant Christians who believed that people needed strict rules to be religious and that any kind of merrymaking was sinful. Shocking as it sounds, Christians in both America and England helped pass laws making it illegal to observe Christmas, believing it was an insult to God to honor a day associated with ancient paganism.