A couple of post-Christmas posts...
The first is "A brief history lesson that may surprise you." It tells Why Christmas on is Dec. 25. For example, "In the Julian calendar the twenty-fifth of December was reckoned the winter solstice, and it was regarded as the Nativity of the Sun, because the day begins to lengthen and the power of the sun to increase from that turning-point of the year."
The second is an article purporting to tell Why the Christian Virgin Birth Is Seriously Messed Up. It reveals how "messed-up" some people are in the opposition to the Virgin Birth, claiming that "the birth story of baby Jesus" sends a dark and harmful message to young girls -- that "Girls who have sex are soiled." While this could be the strange idea of some odd few, it is not the message of Christianity and the Bible. The Virgin Birth is a miraculous sign and required not because sex is bad, but because the father of Jesus is not a man but God. This article is a strawman (or perhaps, more appropriately, a strawwoman).
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