text: How about you quit telling my why and how I think. For starters, you're wrong. I accept many arguments about Jesus that don't accord with my personal preferences. And anyone whose epistemological habits amount to "Because the church says so" has zero standing to dismiss positions arrived at through serious consideration of evidence and argument.
  
  <<The comment from Pope Benedict XVI was not a magisterial statement that the late Father Brown's exegesis was the Catholic interpretation or even consistent with the Catholic intepretation.>>
  
  I would've mistaken that for one of Kurgan's quips. Sheer comedy.
  
  Father Brown is hardly the only scholar to have noted the rather conspicuous parallels between Matthew's nativity narrative and the Moses story. There's no evidence to support the historicity of the slaughter of the innocents. It is a fiction meant to illustrate a theological truth: despite the most murderous instincts of men, God prevails.