re: #182 wheat-dogg

If you read A Christmas Carol as a theological critique, it’s clear Dickens was condemning Scrooge’s ultra-Calvinism for a more charitable kind of Christianity. The three spirits are part of Scrooge’s “road to Damascus.”

Nowhere in the text does he refer to Jesus by name. Bob Cratchit, in retelling Tiny Tim’s remarks about going to church, only obliquely refers to Jesus’ miracles. The Ghost of Christmas Present refers to his 1,800 or so brothers who came before him.

Modern day Christian writers would have hammered Jesus’ name home on every single page.

Why is Donald Trump not rotting away in debtor’s prison?