Of course the Washington Post is interested in trying to get rid of the story of how bureaucrats inconvenienced God’s own family, and how God turned even that into a fulfilment of Scripture.
The whole article is pretty much a compendium of stupid.
Nobody says, “You know, we don’t have many sources about Julius Caesar, and it seems so unlikely that a guy would go from being a Roman senator to becoming an emperor. And then, this whole business about him being stabbed by a mob of other Senators, so none of them could be sure who really killed him? Obviously mythical! And if he did exist, obviously all this stuff about him sleeping around with other people’s wives and sons is just made up, to go along with his family and him claiming to be descended from the goddess Venus.”
Or at least, we don’t do that now. There was a time when every historical figure got his turn at being reclassified as a “solar myth,” and were supposed to be fictional or not to have had any interesting things really happen in their lives; everything was invented by storytellers or worshippers. Historians eventually got over that, but some people are still trying this weird history denial with Jesus.
