Hark! The Herald Angels Didn’t Sing

[elleng]

We are in Advent, but over the transom has come the sobering news that Image Books has just published a book written by the pope, “Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives,” in which he observes that there was neither an ox nor a donkey in the stable where Jesus was born. Nor did a host of angels sing. They spoke.

Is “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing” doomed?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/opinion/what-didnt-happen-in-bethlehem.html?hp

[NYC_SKP]

1. hugz!

[elleng]

2. 2 U 2!!!

[JaneyVee]

3. And the Pope knows this how?

[elleng]

4. Read?

'He writes: “In the Gospel there is no reference to animals at this point. But prayerful reflection, reading Old and New Testaments in the light of one another, filled this lacuna at a very early state by pointing to Isaiah 1:3: ‘The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master’s crib, but Israel does not know.’ ” A few pages later, the pope explains that “Christianity has always understood that the speech of angels is actually song.”

But the clear point of the book — and of the biographical trilogy that this volume completes — is that Roman Catholics should know what the Gospels say about Jesus and stick to it. They should not be distracted by popular myth, or even by historical scholarship.'

[Nye Bevan]

5. Next they'll be telling us that the shepherds weren't watching their flocks by night.

And that the little drummer boy never drummed.

That reminds me: why are there only 25 letters in the alphabet? Because the angel said "No L"!

[elleng]

6. HA!

[Voice for Peace]

7. here is photographic proof of the virgin birth

with the proud parents



This Christmas we celebrate the birth of the son of Dog.

[defacto7]

8. But what about Santa?

Ask the Pope that one... Bet he doesn't know.

[Zax2me]

9. Boy, nice to know that Christianity is policed so well.

By NON-Christians.
What would they do without you?!