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A boastful vicar, in the vestry after morning service, remarked to his church wardens, “I’m a fortunate man! When I go up into the pulpit I hardly ever know what I’m going to talk about, but I manage to put my sermons over”. One of the wardens replied, “We know what you mean, Vicar. When you come down out of the pulpit, we hardly ever know what you’ve been talking about.”
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophesy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
The custom of bringing evergreens into the home for the midwinter festival dates back before the dawn of known history. In Britain, in mediaeval times, there were the 12 days of holiday for Christmas with holly, ivy, bay, rosemary and mistletoe… 
…Belief Hellenization Christmas inquisition Judaism Jesus Essene Christianity… It shows that the fiction of the virgin birth evolved as all things do.…
