1. Thursday, December 23, 2004

    someone emailed me complaining 

    that i havent really told a lot of bible stories this Christmas season, and it’s true, i havent told any.

    metafilter had an interesting debate yesterday and someone said that Christmas isnt really a holy season, it’s a holy day. that the bastardization and commercialation of Christmas has turned it into a season as opposed to a day.

    with that said, i dont see any problems with talking about the birth of Jesus a few days before his birthday.

    right now for example it would be pretty scary if i was Joseph and Mary with nowhere to go and the Messiah about to be born. one of my favorite characters in the bible is Joseph and his inability to do the ONLY thing that he had to regarding the son of man: find a place for Mary to deliver the infant.

    to me that makes the story believable, and very Homer Simpson moment to fail at finding a proper inn or crashpad for the son of God.

    i also like that King Herod was after the little baby Jesus the minute he was born and pissed that he was even born in the first place.

    but my favorite passage in the birth of Jesus is when Joseph found out that his virgin wife was pregnant. in a word he flipped out.



    to me this makes sense and makes me believe in the virgin birth story because it seems very realistic that a religious man like Joseph would be really pissed/confused/angry if he found out that he married a woman who is suddenly pregnant.

    anyway, thats my two cents this morning. i hope your Christmas Eve eve is magical and great.

    bored housewife (pictured) + sk smith + my virgin bride moxie