Your suggestion aligns with much of what we know about Jesus’s teachings and character as presented in the Gospels. Jesus consistently emphasized humility, service to others, and focusing on the spiritual over the material or self-glorifying. Here’s why it’s plausible to think Jesus would not have wanted a holiday commemorating his own birth:

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According to the sum of human writings and knowledge, our three most controversial federal holidays happen consecutively during the last three months of the year: Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day ( Read more... )

Or I just get used to the idea that billions of people will read my shit if I run for public office ( Read more... )

I've long been a reader of the Financial Times, I have a registered account with them, and I especially keep up with their Alphaville blog ( Read more... )

Sir Ben allowed me an unlocked orgasm last week when I spent an overnight date with him,

it was super fuckin' incredible; if you generally don't have orgasms, and then you get an unlocked orgasm, it's like 40 days and 40 nights in the Desert, not succumbing to Temptation, as the Devil flies you across all creation (Israel) and promises you ( Read more... )

You can grow up in the Christian faith without knowing a lot about its history and origins, because the myths told to believers are not rigorously tested against the latest historical methods and sources ( Read more... )

I don't go to church, I don't identify as a "Christian" per se ( Read more... )

Today is a federal holiday, thanks to the generosity of our President.  So this morning I re-read my 2010 reinterpretation of the Gospel according to Matthew.  It was the first of three Bible reinterpretations I've completed, the others were my Book of Genesis and my Book of Revelation.

Of the three, I think my best is Matthew.  I had the most fun ( Read more... )

Done properly, zen meditation is neither staring into empty space, nor fantasizing about whatever you want. It is a particular kind of effort -- focusing on your breath and your heartbeat, and endlessly dragging yourself back to that focus on your breath and your heartbeat.

This requires effort! because what I call the "frog brain" doesn't want to ( Read more... )

One of the many weird things about the Left in this country is that the Nation of Islam is especially vilified for being anti-Semitic, when it is equally anti-Christian. Furthermore, both its anti-Semitism and its anti-Christianism are rooted in its overriding anti-Whitism ( Read more... )