Comments on: Christmas was not about a housing shortage but about wicked government

By: Bazman

Bazman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:21:04 +0000

In this story Herod caused the massacre of the innocents by passing laws to stop councils from using money raised from the selling of council houses to build more houses. Causing homeless people to flee and live in hotels and B&B's. An entirely cynical political decision. The brutal reality of Roman power was temporal and could not overcome the minds of the working class.

By: Neil Craig

Neil Craig — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:57:01 +0000

What this story really proves is that everybody loves to embellish a good story. The reason we get the born in a manger story is that the Talmud predicts the Messiah will be born in Bethleham. Thus Jesus was retrofitted with a Bethleham birth & accoutrements. Later Christians added the December birthdate.

By: [[NAME EDITED]]

[[NAME EDITED]] — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:23:42 +0000

There’s a sermon in that!