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Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

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#2

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

For those keeping track:

Presence of animals in manger: Not true.
Virgin birth: Totally true.
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#15

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

I love that he is taking the time to finally address such an incredibly important issue! And people say the Catholic church is not relevant anymore, here's proof that they really care about what matters. This clearly needed to be addressed on an international level *eye roll*

This is so absurd. Anyone who comes from a Latin background or knows Latin people could tell you that if you go to a Latin home during Christmas season you will see an entire zoo in the nativity scene. I remember growing up in South America my aunt had a beautiful nativity scene with lions, zebras, elephants, and any animal you can imagine, it was like a LIONG KING Christmas. It's crazy and ridiculous, but it's part of the culture, and as some have pointed out, a random animal in the nativity scene is hardly the most ridiculous part of said scene.
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#17

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Another fun fact: The Three Kings of orient are...not kings, probably not of the orient and not three in number. Magi visited Jesus "from the east" and brought "gold, frankincense and Myrrh" which led people to say there were three of them- three gifts, three magi.

And "magi" probably meant they were astrologers (makes sense if they saw the star) but if they followed the star in the East...well that means they were from the west, right? Some countries celebrate TWELVE Magi coming to see the baby Jesus, twelve being a number that comes up a lot on the roulette wheel that is JC's life.
#18

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Yeah I bet the three who brought the gifts were mighty pissed off twhen the other nine tried to sign the card!
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#19

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Years ago I sent an Xmas card that pictured the baby Jesus in the manger and Mary whispering to Joseph "I was sure one of these "wise men" would get us a crib!"
#20

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

"Even St Peter's Square has a giant Nativity scene at Christmas (pictured), complete with animals, but the Pope says this idea of Christ surrounded by donkeys, oxen and sheep is a seventh century invention"

But the Pope says nothing about other Bible stories that came from other sources centuries before...

Nice.
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#21

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Like the Jesus story stealing a lot of aspects and plot points from the cult of Mithras?
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#22

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Animals in the manger? Preposterous! Everything else in the Bible...totally true.
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#23

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Exactly, Snafu!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2
#24

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

While we're adding fun facts, when I took a New Testament Survey class in college, my teacher, a retired minister, stated that there was no way Christmas occurred when we have it traditionally set. More than likely, Jesus was born in the spring. The detail that sticks out the most in my mind is my teacher saying, "No shepherd in his right mind would have his sheep out in the cold winter air, risking sickness and death!"

To be fair, most translations of the Bible never say the angels were singing; they have them 'praising God and saying...' At the same time, though, this whole thing is quite silly on the Pope's part. So what if there were or weren't animals there? How does he know, or not? Why come along now and speak against such?
#25

Pope demands: Get your ass out of that manger!

Opera, Mithras was supposed to have been born around the winter solstice, he was also born of a virgin, was killed and resurrected. The cult of Mithras was a strong movement during the formation of Christianity and the early Christians adopted some of his legend to gain members.
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