Dec
25
“Christmas has been ruined. It should be about religion, it should be about charity, it should be about thinking about Jesus if it’s about anything. But it’s simply about gorging yourself too much, quareling with your family, wasting cash upon presents and generally making a pig of yourself”
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus in 384AD, 30 years after Christmas first became a public festival. From BBC Radio 4’s Beyond Belief programme.
