Christmas as a secular holiday of good cheer and well wishes is a good thing.
But the Nativity story isn't true. It's a myth roughly on a par with Pandora's Box and the many faceted exploits of Zeus and Apollo.
To actually believe in a god that impregnates a virgin so she can give birth to himself and then he can sacrifice himself to himself in order to get forgiveness from himself makes absolutely no sense if you didn't have it banged into your head since you were a child.
You know, it would have been easier if he just put a BIG neon sign in the sky that said "Hey guys, forget that OT stuff. Here's a new set of rules." Besides, then people in Asia, Africa and the Americas would have gotten the message at the same time.
At the very least he would have done better to smack the Roman Emperor in the back of the head and say "Yo, Augustus, we need to talk."
To those of us with triple digit plus IQs and a decent education it makes no sense even though we had it banged into our heads as children.
I stopped believing in fairy tales a long time ago. Believe what you want. That's your right. But the whole world would be better off if people applied some critical thinking to nonsense like religion.
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