This Is What Happens.

[Minimalist]

When smart people try to make sense out of bible horseshit.

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Was the Star of Bethlehem a Star, Comet ... or Miracle?

Astronomy can tell us that all these planetary conjunctions indeed occurred. But whether anyone actually observed them, and if any of these sent the Magi on their historic journey, are all matters for conjecture.

Sure.  Funny how these people never address this part of the comment in Matty.

After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

Matty 2:9

Let's see you make up an explanation for that.  I'd like to see one astronomer who isn't going out of his way to blow jesus freaks profess his acceptance of that one!

[downbeatplumb]

Personally I find it highly unlikely that any particular building can be pointed out by a celestial body.

The whole birth myth reads like a childish fairy tale.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Personally I find it highly unlikely that any particular building can be pointed out by a celestial body.

The whole birth myth reads like a childish fairy tale.

Reminds me of the M*A*S*H episode in which the surgeons were in a broken down bus in enemy territory, and Frank used a (broken) walkie-talkie to try and get help.  The message he relayed was, 'There are only about three stars visible from my current location - I am directly under the brightest one.'

Boru