This Blog Is Full Of Crap

Will someone please check the Archbishop of Cantebury 's offices for a prayer rug and a compass pointing to Mecca? The guy seems to be systematically undermining any and all Jewish and Christian claims to the Holy Land in a manner that Michel Sabbeh must be jealous of:

Dr Rowan Williams has claimed there was little evidence that the Magi even existed and there was certainly nothing to prove there were three of them or that they were kings. He said the only reference to the wise men from the East was in Matthew's gospel and the details were very vague.

Dr Williams said: "Matthew's gospel says they are astrologers, wise men, priests from somewhere outside the Roman Empire, that's all we're really told. It works quite well as legend."

The Archbishop went on to dispel other details of the Christmas story, adding that there were probably no asses or oxen in the stable.

He argued that Christmas cards which showed the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Jesus, flanked by shepherds and wise men, were misleading. As for the scenes that depicted snow falling in Bethlehem, the Archbishop said the chance of this was "very unlikely".

In a final blow to the traditional nativity story, Dr Williams concluded that Jesus was probably not born in December at all. He said: "Christmas was when it was because it fitted well with the winter festival."

Okay, so I'm guilty of having said "The Gospels are nothing more than four drunk street-preachers who can't keep their stories straight" and that Christmas is nothing but a franchise of the Coca-Cola Marketing Department, but this guy seems to delight in shaving away the fairy tales and legends from the Jewish and Christian claims on the land in a manner that tears off chucks of historical record.

Sure, several of my 100 Word Stories poke a bit of fun and bemusement at a central character of Jesus, but the guy's the most written-about figure in history. Even more than, say, Abraham Lincoln. He's easy fodder for storytelling.

You know, maybe Doctor Williams could apply his same keen logic to flying boraqs, having your guts ripped out and washed with magic water, throwing rocks at the devil, and other fun stories found in a book that Gitmo guards are supposed to carry around with plastic gloves on?

Let's see how long his head stays on his shoulders when he questions the "legends" of the Quran openly and publicly. And if Ricky Gervais manages to avoid getting any blood spilled on his shirt in the process.