Out of all the misery that Christianity has visited on humanity, this jumbled creed has given us one thing of true beauty, which is Christmas Day. It’s the one day of the year when we’re encouraged to show love and affection for each other, and be generous with each other. As such it is the single finest possible holiday the human race has ever created. I do love Christmas, for this reason.
The funny thing is that it celebrates the birth of a Jew who is worshiped by Christians, on the wrong day. Their Bible clearly states that his mother and father had traveled to Bethlehem to pay their yearly taxes to the Romans and she gave birth the night before those taxes were due, which was April 15th, the same day that we in the USA pay our taxes, because our government was modeled on the Roman system.
So if it was after midnight, he was born on the 15th and if not, then he was born on the 14th, though after over 2000 years, why quibble? We’ll never know anyway.
What matters is not what day he was born or even if he was born at all. What matters is that we at least take just one day out of the entire year to lay down our weapons and have a bit of peace, and be reminded that living together in harmony really can be wonderful.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!