@Gargron The essay is eloquent, but it gets the religious side of #Christmas wrong. Yes, in the natural course of human matters, poor families are often cold, receive small charities, and sometimes, even so, good things happen to them...

But the Christian claim is that the Love which moves the Sun and the other stars became one of us in Bethlehem, and that through that little infant we are all offered redemption and love, despite all our failings, despite the cold and the dark.