You know the story. The haunting ghosts of Christmas past eventually persuaded cheap-skate Ebenezer Scrooge to embrace Christmas and its spirit of generosity to the needy and poor. It was the ghosts. They were the key to the radical change in Scrooge’s attitude and practice. Cute ghost story with a happy ending. Very sentimental and Christmas like. But, according to Luke’s Gospel, quite misleading and a very unhappy ending.

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