Bah! Humbug!” These two words are instantly associated with Charles
Dickens’ immortal fictional anti-hero, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge was the
prototype of the Grinch who stole Christmas, the paradigm of
all men cynical.
We all recognize that Ebenezer Scrooge was a mean person - stingy,
insensitive, selfish, and unkind. What we often miss in our
understanding of his character is that he was preeminently profane.
“Bah! Humbug!” was his Victorian use of profanity.
Not that any modern editor would feel the need to delete Scrooge’s
expletives. His language is not the standard currency of cursing. But it
was profane in that Scrooge demeaned what was holy. He trampled on the
sanctity of Christmas. He despised the sacred. He was cynical
toward the sublime. Continue at R. C. Sproul
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