Humble origin …

… Costica Bradatan - It Began in a Manger… | Literary Review | Issue 479. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The impact of Christianity on the way we live, think and speak has been extraordinarily pervasive, and not only in the West, Holland concludes. Whether we like it or not, we live in a ‘society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions’. We could not even rebel against this heritage without resort to Christian vocabulary, Christian ethical tools and Christian notions of rebirth and renewal.