Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Wall Street Journal opinion section.

In Defense of Scrooge, Whose Thrift Blessed the World

So on Christmas, as we celebrate the promise of human redemption and join in repeating Ebenezer Scrooge’s famous pledge, “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year,” let us also remember the contributions that Scrooge and Marley and the wealth accumulators of our own age have made as “the founders of our feast.”