Right now I am listening to a rather strange Christmas album. It has a man, then a woman, singing Celtic Christmas songs. They are something like folk songs, only with a Christ/child theme. Isn't that a contradiction? The Celtic winter celebrations were more pagan...with Santa as the King of the Elves. It goes back a long time. I can't believe that Christians were upset when astronomers stated that the heavenly astrological event we think of as the Star of Bethlehem occurred during the summer. Jesus Christ. You don't think that Jesus was actually born in the winter on the exact time as the Winter Solstice celebration, do you? It might be when we celebrate this birth, but probably the Rabbis who guard his bones in Palestine know the actual birth date and are keeping it secret, like they have kept secret the bones of Christ for all these years...in deference to Christian dogma. I was one of the amazed ones to read in Spirituality and Health Magazine that Rabbis have attended his tomb in secret for all of these years. After all, he was a holy man to them, too. I wonder if my mom would like to visit Jesus's tomb? I would. Would it make him less God-like to her?
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