You either love Christmas or you hate it, or you do both at different times. The playwright George Bernard Shaw clearly hated it. He wrote, “Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.”Christopher Hitchens was another Christmas-hater. He referred to it as a “moral and aesthetic nightmare.” His ambition was “to write an anti- [...]
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