Unto us a (fake) child is born, and Promise shall be its name

Now, many life coaches and motivational speakers have popularised the strategy of “fake it till you make it” and some smart childless women have modified it another step to “fake it till you miss it”.

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The birth of a baby is always a joyful event, and the whole world still celebrates that of a baby who was born to a Jewish woman some two thousand and something years ago.

The “whole world” means that — the whole world, where today the nation that is probably the happiest over the birth of Christ is the not-so-christian People’s Republic of China.