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edhopper

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Wed Dec 25, 2024, 11:05 AM Wednesday

An atheist at Christmas Mass [View all]

I went to a Christmas Mass yesterday because my niece was in the nativity pageant. She was a dancing angel.
Though I still find taken the birth story as anything but myth is nonsensical (so much is conflicted with facts and is ahistorical) I did think that it works very well as a fable. The destitute nature of the family being forced to travel while Mary is close to birth, the beyond humble place of the birth. The wise men and the shepherds acknowledging how special the birth is. There are good lessons there in a world that to this day sees people born to high birth as better and more deserving than the rest of us.

So here is an atheist acknowledging that looking at the nativity in a certain way van be good.

Best to ignore those who think that it is literally true.

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