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You cant be claiming jewish stereotypes when absolutely nothing in the text mentions jews. When Dickens uses Jewish chatacters, like...

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Yes, exactly. The Puritans generally valued charity and Scrooge’s cold sneering, “Are there no workhouses?” would have horrified them...

Classic: It's a Wonderful Life (film), Klaus (animated) Alternative: Home Alone At Christmas: Die Hard

Moreover the Puritans would absolutely vilify a miser, while they promoted thrift Puritans were big on mutual aid and visible shows of...

It’s funny how many American films around the same time are really positive about unions and socialism (It Happened on 5th Avenue, The...

This - I for one have never seen it, but will make an effort based on your recommendation

We’re preparing for the real debate - is there such a thing as a Christmas video game and if so what is your nomination? Debaters, start...

Yup. We’re enjoying the to and fro. Feel free to participate in other threads more to your liking.

Look, my other options are inserting myself into whatever crafting event my spouse has decided is critical to the holiday this year...

I have an English degree and this kind of debate is now hard-wired into me.

It’s just a fun pretend argument. Don’t sweat it!

Not as well known, I think (and not been on TV at Christmas in the era when most of us only had 3-4 channels). But if you want to...

Not a lot of Puritans there, many of them are OK with celebrating Christmas (also: playing cards, plays, popular entertainment...

I don’t think there were a lot of people who’d have called themselves Puritans in England in the 1840s, though many Christians would...