The biblical Christmas story, the one that announces the birth of Jesus, seems so sweet it can appear almost saccharine. The oldest extant texts to record the birth of Jesus go out of their way to locate him in his political setting. Countless other examples could be offered of these early writers’ attempts to amplify the political environment of Jesus’s birth, life and death. Politics was religion and religion political. Are Christians still a political threat?

Source: Philippine Star December 25, 2020 04:04 UTC