My 666th!

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

OK - so it's my 666th post and I thought I ought to find something religion-shattering for this celebration, but alas....

I've read about folks looking for comets, super-novae, and other celestial signs that announced the birth of JC, and caused the wise men to visit with pressies, but have now realised that this was completely the wrong approach.

I've worked out what actually happened!

As we all know, JC was born in Bethlehem - or not, so I'll assume this is correct for the moment.

He was born in stables attached to an inn, apparently.

So what was His "father" going to do first of all? Have a few drinks in the inn, and hand around the cigars, of course.

Then what? Well, as JC rather inconveniently got Himself born at Christmas, it was probably a few days later when Joseph went into the town and put the announcement in the local newspaper.

You know, something like, "On 25th December, to Joseph (Ha!) & Mary, a boy child was born, to be named Immanuel - or Jesus H Christ, whatever. Mary claims that He's the son of God, so all of you sinners - watch this space!"

Therefore, the wise men read it in the Behlehem Star! So simple, when you come to think about it - I'm sure Occam would be proud of me.


Now I need to think about my next challenge.....

YBW

 

[Beerina]

I've read about folks looking for comets, super-novae, and other celestial signs that announced the birth of JC, and caused the wise men to visit with pressies, but have now realised that this was completely the wrong approach.

People have pointed out how, should such an event be discovered to have happened that, far from proving the veracity of that religion, it actually shoots it down. A known, natural phenomenon vacates the need for a supernatural explanation.

 

[zooterkin]

Darn, I miscounted and wasted my 666th post somewhere else, rather than here. Anyway, this is my 667th.

I think I follow Beerina's point, that any natural phenomenon can be explained as a coincidence; of course, if the event was unpredictable (e.g. a supernova, rather than, say, a comet), and there was a clear and well-documented prophecy that this event would be associated with a significant event for the religion, there might be something in it. However, prophecies tend to be vague enough that subsequent events can be made to fit, one way or another.

I've also wondered how a star, several light years away, could be positioned over a particular stable, as normally presented in the Christmas story, but I suspect that one's been done to death elsewhere.

 

[DoubtingStephen]

Therefore, the wise men read it in the Behlehem Star! So simple, when you come to think about it - I'm sure Occam would be proud of me.

YBW

This seems a likely explanation, as the Bethlehem Star is well known to have a pro-Republican bias, and we all know that's the Party of Jesus.

They may have had the GPS coordinates wrong though, because it seems before finding Jesus the Wise Men were first misdirected to another stable where a lad named Brian had just been born.

 

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

Ah, yes,

I had overlooked the Brian part of the story.

And, of course, had a star got close enough to be seen as hovering over the stable, then the whole earth would have been destroyed. Oh, bugger - there I go again, using logic.

YBW

 

[The Grave]

Yes but logic doesn't prove anything! Apparently...