Episode 92: We Three Kings of Orient... Aren‘t - Everything Wrong With the Nativity Story

How could a story so fraught with contradictions and disagreements among its tellers, literally from its first verses,  ever be taken seriously enough to spur on a global religion that goes on for more than two thousand years? It's a true mystery that isn't about to be solved anytime soon. What do the gospel writers have to say about Jesus' birth? Why do two of them not even bother to mention it? If there were angels singing to shepherds, why didn't at least ONE credible historian ever notice? This week, we take apart the nativity story and examine these questions along with a few others and attempt to demonstrate the impossibility that any of it could actually be true. In Christians behaving badly we have love, guns and tornadoes with some encouraging news courtesy of Pew Research.

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