Mastodawn

a Christmas carol makes more sense from a Buddhist perspective than a Christian one

the actual mechanism of Scrooge's transformation is way more Buddhist than Christian

there's no salvation through grace, no acceptance of a savior, no forgiveness of sins through faith

what happens is he's forced to see clearly.

he witnesses the causes and conditions of his own suffering and the suffering he creates. he sees dependent origination in action - how his choices ripple outward, how Tiny Tim's fate is entangled with his own actions

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Tarren (They/Them)Dec 25

@Taweret @darth_hideout Interesting fact: Dickens was actually #Unitarian / #UnitarianUniversalist, and he wasn't aiming for the Christian savior-based Christmas image when he wrote "A Christmas Carol." (This brought to you by the #ChristmasEve #UU service which was based on #AChristmasCarol with some UU Christmas history thrown in for good measure.

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ssake1

@tarrenvane @Taweret @darth_hideout
Regarding "A Christmas Carol," Dickens wasn't even the original author. All the spiritual elements came from one of the original co-authors, a young American woman named Abby Poyen Whittier. I think Dickens was no Christian, at all, but merely played the role, as he played the role of an author and social reformer. He was actually a massive plagiarist and an imposter.