Letter: Christmas debate

WITH regards to the debate over the date of Christ’s birth in these pages, the whole story of the Nativity is a fabrication. The claim within the Old Testament is that the Saviour has to be born of the house of David, in his home town, which means that the Saviour had to have been born in Bethlehem.

Jesus (if born at all) was born in Nazareth. In order to get him to Bethlehem, a huge invention must be told. A census is called by Caesar Augustus. This never happened. The people of the Bronze Age Middle East did not have to go their home towns. Quirinius was not the Governor of Syria in that year, as the Bible claims.

The Gospels all contradict each other on the story of Christ’s birth, for which no date is given. The date chosen by the early Church was the date of the birth of three pagan saviours the Roma Attis, the Greek Dionysus and the Egyptian Osiris. The Bible itself proscribes the decoration of trees in Jeremiah 10:2-4 making clear that it was a heathen act forbidden by believers.

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Christmas is not as Christians claim a unique event marking the birth of their Saviour; it is a long-running pagan festival, which predates Christianity by millennia.

Alan Hinnrichs

Gillespie Terrace

Dundee