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C.S. Lewis Was Too Cynical About Christmas
The Wall Street Journal
|December 26, 2025
C.S. Lewis loathed Christmas as a commercial racket almost as much as he loved it as a holy day.
He saw mass gift-giving as a kind of annual blackmail, a “symptom of that lunatic condition” of our time “in which everyone lives by persuading everyone else to buy things.” By Dec. 25, given the ritual pressures, the average family looked as if “
Cette histoire est tirée de l'édition December 26, 2025 de The Wall Street Journal.
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