Methodists Quotes
Embury, a Methodist preacher from England, was urged by Heck to preach in America. He protested that he had neither church building nor congregation.
Christmas, it is sometimes legally argued, was ubiquitous in America and not just a Christian holiday. But as this quotation demonstrates, Christmas was not even celebrated by many of the Christian Churches as late as 1886. See {629844} for a similar example. A number of Protestant religions forbid the celebration of Christmas until relatively recently.
His intolerance and bigotry not only is of Muslims and Hindus, but extends to some Protestant denominations as well. See {643060} for additional examples of bias on the part of this erstwhile Presidential aspirant. To him, religions, unless they agree with his religious beliefs, are evil and dangerous to society.
This historical quote is important because it shows that there was great dissention about the celebrating of Christmas even among different Christian sects. Traditionally, the celebration of Christmas in a government building or school would have offended half the Christian population. In early America, Christmas celebration was legally prohibited in some states and required in others. This was one of the reasons that the Founding Fathers wrote the First Amendment into the Constitution. In modern times, some critics accuse the requirements that Christmas celebration in public facilities as being anti-Christian. But the problem has been with America since before the Constitution.
