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While I don’t go around exclaiming “Bah! Humbug!” at this time of year, there will be some after reading the following remarks that may well see me in this light. But while Scrooge did come around, Dickens was careful to not entirely avoid the miser’s legitimate complaints about the season. Who but someone like me that comes right out and says during the Christmas season “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a poor film would write of his doubts concerning the divinity of Jesus while Christmas trees are being decorated and the colored lights are popping up everywhere. But I think the spirit of Christmas, as Dickens emphasized and the Grinch discovered, is more to the point than dogma concerning the divinity of Jesus. Ben Franklin never read “Elmer Gantry,” but he anticipated Sinclair Lewis’ novel by the admonition to his good friend the famed preacher George Whitefield not to attempt making Franklin feel indebted for what was...

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