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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