Tuesday, December 07, 2004

What Time Is It At Time?

Time Warner and Newsweek are not either of my most desired news sources and it looks like that will remain the trend for the long term future.

"Newsmags' kiboshon Christmas BY ADAM LISBERGDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Just in time for Christmas, America's two largest news magazines devote this week's cover stories to debunking the story of Jesus' birth.Among the conclusions in Time and Newsweek: Jesus was born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem; there is little evidence of three kings following a star, and the story of the virgin birth may have been borrowed.

"The Nativity saga is neither fully fanciful nor fully factual but a layered narrative of early tradition and enduring theology,"

Newsweek writes in examining the Sunday-school version of the birth of Christ.This may be unwelcome "news" to most Americans. A Newsweek poll found that 55% of Americans believe every word in the Bible is literally true, 67% believe the entire Christmas story is literally true and 79% believe Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary with no human father."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/259410p-222141c.html

Maybe next weeks issues will be devoted to the debunking of Moses or David or Abraham. Or maybe even the considered scientific analysis of Mohamed or Budda the Koran and the Tora. But I think not.Theres no forensic evidence to support the telling of Christ's birth in Matthew or Luke? There probably isn't much "forensic evidence" that Moses led the Hebrews through the desert for forty years subsisting on manna either. Or that Moses brought down the plagues upon Ramses and Egypt and marked the passage of death past the first born of Hebrews by marking Hebrew homes with the blood of Passover. I say we get CIS New York and CSI Miami on these revelations right away.

© trickworm 2004

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