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Eliza10
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Ugh! What slop! Primarily two intellectual bags of hot air with no imagination pontificating how the Biblical accounts of the Christmas story can’t be true. The yawning vacantness of their minds! What did they scrape these people out of???
This is how it went: Polished “reporting” glorifying the outrageous opinions of those two really boring self-important guys posing as the “experts”. Also another polished unbelieving Princeton lady proudly sharing her “obvious” conclusion the Christmas story is made up. A non-intellectual un-polished Evangelical pastor interjecting the “opposing” side, not supported by any facts, sounding very much off-the-cuff.
So many excellent Catholic scholars - they had to have gone so far out of their way not to fall all over them when they were dragging these guys out of the closet.
Oddly mixed in were cuts of children in a nativity pagent, also interviewed, telling their beliefs. Surely paraded to showcase the contrast: childish beleivers vs. adult experts. But it back-fired, because the innocent faith of the children was the most compelling thing in this “news” cast.
In jolting contrast to what CBS was trying to manipulate was the deeply moving Christmas music.
Of course, these experts draggged out their “evidence” that December 25th is not the real birth of Christ. It had to be spring, and, it was picked because the Catholic Church leaders wanted to incorporate the pagan winter soltice feast into Sacred Tradition. Uh huh.
Well there you go, those who are asking about the date of the birth of Christ. Look at the kinds of experts who are so sure that this is not the real date. The kind who sit around and invent lame theories on how the birth of Christ was “made up” by Matthew (whose discipleship with the Messiah apparently had no impact on him morally, so much so that he spent subsequent years making things up aobut His Lord and Savior). The kind who say Mary was impregnated out of wedlock by Joseph. Who also dismiss the Bethlehem birth as not possible (had to be Nazereth).
Thanks a lot, CBS. Merry Christmas. Er, uh, Happy Holidays.
This is how it went: Polished “reporting” glorifying the outrageous opinions of those two really boring self-important guys posing as the “experts”. Also another polished unbelieving Princeton lady proudly sharing her “obvious” conclusion the Christmas story is made up. A non-intellectual un-polished Evangelical pastor interjecting the “opposing” side, not supported by any facts, sounding very much off-the-cuff.
So many excellent Catholic scholars - they had to have gone so far out of their way not to fall all over them when they were dragging these guys out of the closet.
Oddly mixed in were cuts of children in a nativity pagent, also interviewed, telling their beliefs. Surely paraded to showcase the contrast: childish beleivers vs. adult experts. But it back-fired, because the innocent faith of the children was the most compelling thing in this “news” cast.
In jolting contrast to what CBS was trying to manipulate was the deeply moving Christmas music.
Of course, these experts draggged out their “evidence” that December 25th is not the real birth of Christ. It had to be spring, and, it was picked because the Catholic Church leaders wanted to incorporate the pagan winter soltice feast into Sacred Tradition. Uh huh.
Well there you go, those who are asking about the date of the birth of Christ. Look at the kinds of experts who are so sure that this is not the real date. The kind who sit around and invent lame theories on how the birth of Christ was “made up” by Matthew (whose discipleship with the Messiah apparently had no impact on him morally, so much so that he spent subsequent years making things up aobut His Lord and Savior). The kind who say Mary was impregnated out of wedlock by Joseph. Who also dismiss the Bethlehem birth as not possible (had to be Nazereth).
Thanks a lot, CBS. Merry Christmas. Er, uh, Happy Holidays.
