{"id":4031,"date":"2016-12-21T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2016-12-22T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T14:43:46","slug":"debunking-the-nativity-w-a-tippling-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/12\/21\/debunking-the-nativity-w-a-tippling-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking the Nativity w\/ A Tippling Philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2016\/12\/15\/bill-oreilly-war-on-christmas-won-by-good-guys-but-insurgents-remain.html\">has been written<\/a> (by one to whom we should all\u00a0defer on imaginary culture clashes) that the so-called War On Christmas is over, but insurgents still remain. I&#8217;ve been admittedly quite lax in my insurgent duties, taking an ineffectual potshot at the Christological-Nativity Complex here and there. Meanwhile, over at Patheos, <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incredulous\/2015\/12\/23\/exceptionally-meritorious-service\/\">Skeptic Ink alumnus<\/a> Johno Pearce has been waging a relentless full-frontal assault.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why is the remarkable story only mentioned in half of the Gospels? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6JJqiBRQJP\">https:\/\/t.co\/6JJqiBRQJP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patheos (@Patheos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patheos\/status\/810326231258370048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Miraculous births, whether virgin or otherwise, are commonplace motifs in ancient literature and culture. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YLlzUUVmzO\">https:\/\/t.co\/YLlzUUVmzO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patheos (@Patheos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patheos\/status\/810243186723586048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The biological problems have theological implications. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c5MiOOYv9o\">https:\/\/t.co\/c5MiOOYv9o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patheos (@Patheos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patheos\/status\/810771659917578240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can find more scathing attacks on Christmas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tippling\/category\/the-nativity\/\">on JP&#8217;s blog<\/a>. Share and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been written (by one to whom we should all\u00a0defer on imaginary culture clashes) that the so-called War On&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-on-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}