Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – just how screwed up the xmas story is

The fellow over at Hillfaith, has this “Beginning at 11:00 am at the Faith & Liberty Ministry Center located on the Senate side at 109 2nd Street NE, right behind the Supreme Court Building, the Nativity Scene where Jesus was born two millennia ago will be recreated.

The baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph will be there, along with the Wise Men, the Shepherds keeping watch over their flocks at night, and, of course, the camels, donkeys, cows and sheep that were also witnesses.” – BTW memes at the bottom

Curious how that never happens in the bible. What these cultists believe is a mash of nonsense, invented to try to make the story work.

In the gospel of Matthew, we have no mention of any stable or animals at all, just ““Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
    and they shall call his name Immanuel”

(which means, God with us). ²⁴ When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, ²⁵ but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.”

Curious how ol’ Joseph managed to call the kid not Immanuel, but Jesus aka Joshua. They don’t mean the same thing, despite what christians often claim.

Then we have the wise men coming some time later, following a “star” to a….house, no stable or animals mentioned at all. They come, go and then we have the flight to egypt, which no other gospel mentions, as well as the “massacre of the innocents”, also not mentioned, and curious how this god does nothing to save kids, despite christians claiming how their imaginary friend cares everso much for them. It’s hilarious how desperately the anonymous auathor of “matthew” tries to make prophecy work, having poor mary and joseph wandering hundreds of miles to hit their marks. And then nothing else is mentioned until JC meets John.

In the gospel of Mark, there is no mention of the birth of jesus at all, we go right to John meeting jesus. No virgins, no star, no wise men, no shepherds, no animals.

In the gospel of Luke, we do have the virgin nonsense again, and this time it’s not Joseph who is told, but Mary. Then Mary goes to Elizabeth, and the whole story of John and Jesus starts there. Of course, John seems to have no idea about the whole virgin birth thing.

This is where the census comes from, a ridiculous claim of how people were scrambling all over judea to go back to their hometowns which would accomplish nothing at all for the roman empire and there is no evidence for it at all. So the whole bit of nonsense of mangers and animals also has no reason to happen.

The business with the shepherds also makes no sense since they would be in their fields in the spring, and that they simply wander off from their sheep to see a a child. Supposedly they wander back, speaking about what they saw, which was evidently promptly forgotten for 29+ years. Jesus supposedly shows up in the temple several times, and yep, that was forgotten about too.

Merry christmas, that time of year when christians demonstrate for the world just how screwed up their religion is.