I guess I have to do one about now.
I really want to tell the water -> wine story
It's a good one
but it's probably better to tell the truth about
"Jesus' Birthday"
Does anybody else think it's odd that the Jewish people don't really believe in Jesus the Great Teacher, yet the entire "Old Testament" is basically a bunch of books out of the Torah, tacked on to the stories about Jesus?
It's because of the Romans and their colonial tactic of religious Syncretism
Basically, when they took over a land they found it was easier to just rename the local people's gods and give them roman names, when they actually tried to crush religious beliefs they went underground, so it was beneficial to the roman state to allow the conquered subjects to continue worshiping their deities, just make them more roman and make sure the roman state got it's portion of the tithe.
In the edges of persia, what is now Israel and Palestine, they had the Jewish people and their priest and Torah, as well as a whole bunch of followers of the man named Jesus, so they bundled them all up and made a Roman Version that lumped it all together and kept the excellent hierarchical control structure that the Jewish priests had been using for centuries as outlined in the Jewish Religious History(Torah). The "virgin birth" of a man-god was a common Egyptian myth that got lumped in there too.
Voila. Everybody's happy and still under control.
More on that, for sure.....
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