Letter: Christmas debate
Jesus (if born at all) was born in Nazareth. In order to get him to Bethlehem, a huge invention must be told. A census is called by Caesar Augustus. This never happened. The people of the Bronze Age Middle East did not have to go their home towns. Quirinius was not the Governor of Syria in that year, as the Bible claims.
The Gospels all contradict each other on the story of Christ’s birth, for which no date is given. The date chosen by the early Church was the date of the birth of three pagan saviours the Roma Attis, the Greek Dionysus and the Egyptian Osiris. The Bible itself proscribes the decoration of trees in Jeremiah 10:2-4 making clear that it was a heathen act forbidden by believers.
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Hide AdChristmas is not as Christians claim a unique event marking the birth of their Saviour; it is a long-running pagan festival, which predates Christianity by millennia.
Alan Hinnrichs
Gillespie Terrace
Dundee