One thing that I’ve never quite gotten is the incredulity that Christians have toward Jews because, well, they just don’t “get it”. I mean, isn’t it obvious that Christ must be the son of God? Isn’t the New Testament chock full of clear auguries that Jesus is the Messiah? Aren’t the religions close enough that [...]

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One of the things I remember clearly being a child was my mother saying (paraphrasing):
When you see the miracle of a birth you know there is a God.
The first thing that I’ll note, is that watching my wife do so, given the painful mess that it was, well, seemed anything but holy. Certainly the crowning [...]

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From Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire“:
From the first of the fathers to the last of the popes, a succession of bishops, of saints, of martyrs, and of miracles, is continued without interruption; and the progress of superstition was so gradual, and almost imperceptible, that we know not in what particular link [...]

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Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
While the “virgin birth” story is compelling, it’s hard not to believe it was either created out of whole cloth, or worse, was an [...]

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