[LivinLOS]

Originally Posted by JayBee

I said, "No, not really. That is just something made up for children. Christmas is Christ's birthday." Looking at me just a wee bit like a little kid who has just been told there is no Santa Claus, she said, "Who he? He no Santa?" It seems she had never heard of anyone named either Christ or Jesus.

So I told her the story of how on Christmas day Baby Jesus was born in a stable with the animals and how he grew up to be the God of the farangs(didn't want to confuse her by saying he was King of The Jews), but how because that didn't go over to well with the government, things went poorly for Jesus and he ended up getting nailed to the cross unitl he gave up the ghost."

Except for the fact that Jesus was not actually born at Christmas at all and its mostly just the roman catholic churches desire to co-opt pagen ceremonies (re the sun god's rebirth easily adapted to the son of god who gets born and reborn) as a way of assimilating another culture in N Europe..

But hey why would we let facts get in the way of a party