I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.