(August 31, 2013 at 12:09 pm)Beta Ray Bill Wrote: If the star was a fact, don't you think the other gospels would have mentioned it?
Never mind the other gospels; what about all the other astrologers in the part of the world able to see it? Someone else would have mentioned it, even if only in passing. This 'star', whether it was supposed to be an actual star or some other astrological conjunction, was allegedly impressive enough to motivate a party of peripatetic Persians hundreds of miles across the desert - yet nobody else could be bothered even to pack a thermos?
It's just like the rest of the JC myth. Somebody or something that was so important and caused such a stir that the whole world turned upon it, yet at the same time so low-key that nobody noticed until it got written down years after the major players had left the stage for one reason or another.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
