Religion

When Labor Party member Lizzie Blandthorn, a member of Australia’s parliament, who is based in Pascoe Vale, north of Melbourne, displayed a black doll in a Christmas nativity scene, she received congratulatory comments, such as “I think it is fantastic …” from Wendy Odgers and “I love that you are depicting Jesus as he most likely was considering the part of the world he was born in.” from Maggie Palmer.

Christmas originated in the womb of the Roman Catholic Church from several ancient festivals and religions. For example, the Church instituted the “Twelve Days of Christmas” to rival the 12-day celebration of the “Feast of Fools,” a festival of the ancient religion called Mithraism, which included such amusements as feasting with a boar's head.

I’ve seen many PBS specials chronicling how predators stalk their prey. I saw one program in which several wolves stalked a swifter deer across yellow and brown mountains, through dead cornfields, amid grass taller than a basketball player and among trees leafless or green.

In the film “The God Who Wasn’t There,” Brian Flemming questions the existence of Jesus Christ. Flemming argues that the biblical Jesus is a myth, a legend based on fairy tales that were never supposed to be seen as historical accounts.