The Christmas season wouldn’t be complete without Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch. What do these two notorious characters from Christmas fiction have in common that we might all need to check for in ourselves? Is it greed, or stinginess, or selfishness, or meanness? I think we can sum up the trait shared by Dickens’ antagonist and Dr. Seuss’s mythical green grump in one word: contempt.
Contempt is defined as “the feeling that a person or…