re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That’s the thing about a lot of Biblical “literalists”: there is absolutely nothing in the Bible that indicates a birth date or year, but they are perfectly happy to accept a convention that dated Christmas based on a selective interpretation of Biblical “events”.

Not entirely true. The author of Luke places the birth at the time of Quirinius’ census in around 7CE. Of course, this entirely contradicts the other gospels, but…