It didn't happen.
Mary was not a virgin when she got impregnated. AND she did not stay a virgin after giving birth. She did not give birth in a stable with sheep, donkeys and camels watching the otherwise disgusting affair.
No one knows the real story behind the less-than-meteoric rise of one Jewish Rabbi in Iron Age Palestine. But he was one of many who rebelled against the Roman occupation of Palestine and failed.
His "success" was to be manufactured out of nothing by his followers some 100 years after his death. Just like the Communists who magnified Marx and Lenin (and the butcher Stalin) to the status of saints, the disciples of Rabbi Jesus magnified his status to that of no less than the son of God with supernatural powers. They wrote their stories of him agremented with all kinds of falsehoods to ensure his story matches the "prophecies" of the even bullshiter Bronze Age old testament or torah. Has anyone ever wondered why the son of God had to specifically be a Semite Jew? Couldn't God have beamed his august gametes across a Japanese or Hindi or Nigerian woman's hymen and have his son born a Japanese or an Indian or a Nigerian?
The stories we heard as children about the poor Christians who, though they were only preaching love, were sent to be devoured by lions in Roman arenas, are all made up. History is written by the victors. So when the Church tells these stories and sets them as "dogma", it is lying and hiding a lot of what really happened and customizing fake stories to fit the official narrative. Never mind that there are some 20 gospels written by many other followers of the Rabbi Jesus, and that only four were retained as the "official word of God" by the Church. All the others, inluding one by Mary Magdalene in which she tells us that she was married to Jesus and had children with him, were banished.
I imagine the Christian rebels in Rome, supposedly living in the misery of the catacombs and dividing everything amongst themselves, like some underground Communist or Islamist cells, were seeking to destroy the Roman or the American empire. Christians were probably a secret "neo-Jewish" organization whose purpose was to undermine the Roman Empire by attacking Roman soldiers, undertaking sabotage operations, and disrupting life in ancient Rome, which prompted the latter to respond with violence. I bet you that most Christians who were crucified or thrown to the lions were labeled criminal terrorists by Rome before the victorious Church beatified them into saints.
Many saints in the Near East, including Saint Paul, were armed mongrel pagans who were killing Christians, but then converted and started killing pagans. Saint Elias is portrayed as a sword-wielding hero slaughtering people who refused to become Christians. Hypatia of Alexandria, Egypt, was a scientist, mathematician and astronomer. She refused to become Christian when the Roman Empire declared Christianity as its official religion. The local brand new bishop of Alexandria, who was previously himself hunted by pagan authorities, turned his rage against those Alexandrians who refused to change their religion: He and a raging mob of Christians dragged Hypatia into the streets, undressed her, and whipped her with a whip made of seashells, then proceeded to dismember her body... All in the name of Christian love.
In Lebanon, the Phoenician people were, of course, pagans with their own pantheon and traditions under Roman occupation. When Rome turned Christian, it demonstrated the concept of Christian love by hunting down the pagan Phoenicians who refused to convert, drove them out of the seacoast and into the mountaineous highlands where they found shelter. Their temples were turned into churches, their gods were renamed as Christian saints, their goddess Ishtar became Mary, while their god Adonis became Jesus. Baal, the supreme Phoenician god, was of course forcibly converted to the Christian god Deus (in Latin).
This is when the Phoenicians, we are told by historians, "disappeared". In fact, they did not disappear, they became Christians. Religious identity under the barbaric Christian Roman empire - as is the case in most of the Muslim world today - takes precedence over national identity. Lebanon's Christians and most of its Muslims are all living Phoenicians who were dispossessed of their ethnic national identity and assigned a religious identity (first Christian, and later Muslim).
So please spare me the disgusting display of monetized Christian love that Christmas is. Whatever Christmas has become, in Christian Europe as well as all around the world where American market imperialism keeps people captive, it has nothing to do with the story of meek and sweet Jesus, which is itself a completely made up myth. There is something very troubling about the fact that billions of people believe this stuff and that the three monotheistic cults - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - were born out of the same Semitic desert people within a geographical range of 1,000 miles (between Egypt, Mecca and Jerusalem)! Is God that territorial to limit his "universal" love of humanity to a tiny desert in Western Asia inhabited by ignorant nomads?
It's all made up, and yet billions of people will subvert their lives for the "Christmas" occasion, spend their savings and get indebted to buy useless crap, and make American corporations and their global minions wealthier and wealthier.
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