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If You Don’t Believe the Bible or Me, Take It From Science—Christmas Is Good for You

STOP BEING GRINCHY

We give gifts. We sing carols. We try to be positive and joyful. And guess what? Science proves that doing these things has actual benefits.

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It’s Christmastime, which means we celebrate the birth of our Savior by…drinking eggnog, putting a pine tree inside our house for some reason, and leaving cookies out for a fat man in a red suit.

Yes, some of our traditions do feel arbitrary.

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