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Ah, more Christmas related stories to feature this year. The one presented here today addresses the primary focus of Christmas…… religion. As long as I can remember their have been challenges to religious beliefs. Thinking back to my earliest memories on the topic points to biblical stories themselves. It seems Jesus was confronted quite frequently by those who challenged what he had to say.

Every year at about this time, readers can count on a few Christmas-themed articles appearing in newspapers and magazines that question the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ. It really is something to see the wide variety of people who get worked up over this ancient Christian belief.

I am religious but probably not in the conventional definition whatever that might be. I was raised Catholic and attended both private and public schools in my elementary and secondary education. It was not uncommon to be met with the ire of a nun when making inquiries about faith. Questions about that which was difficult to understand at an early age rarely produced the intended result. One quickly learned whom to ask and when. Lest you repeat the unfortunate mistake more than once.

Yet those early experiences did not cause me to abandon my belief in God or diminish my faith. Theologians and others who dedicate themselves to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding of religion ask questions and seek answers all the time. Then are those who present arguments against religion much like those who challenged Jesus in the biblical accounts eluded to earlier. That is to say some are genuinely seeking understanding and others are merely guided by a personal agenda that opposes the idea of religion or a particular religion. Determining which group they belong to is the task.

Stanford Matthews
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