SILENT night it certainly wasn't. All was not calm. Truth to tell, the first Christmas was a rather noisy affair.
The cattle were lowing and the donkey grunted with the relief of being divested of yon rotund virgin mother and expected babbie and, let's be honest, childbirth itself isn't exactly a quiet pastime, is it?
Then, there were those shepherds washing their socks by night, or something, while choirs of angels carolled heavenly alleluias.
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Meanwhile, down below awd Nick was giving his diabolical minions a right roasting.
"Fancy falling for the oldest trick in the book," his infernal majesty probably screamed. "Weren't you fiends warned in Genesis and the Garden of Eden that a God child would rise up to crush my kingdom?"
That night there'd have been panic and pandemonium as hell cobbled together Plan B - tempting King Herod to kill all new- born babes.
Still, I suppose we can allow Herr Mohr some poetic licence as he scribbled Stille Nacht around the year 1840.
Later that nacht, things probably did grow stille, after the devil had finished his tantrum and the shepherds had turned in.
What's certainly true is that today radiant beams shine from Christ's holy face with the dawn of redeeming grace' on those who come and worship him.
Consequently, today's followers can be still and sleep in heavenly peace - then arise and have a right royal knees-up of a joyful celebration.
How deep a mine do we have to dig to get to awd Nick?
Or is he just a completely made up invention of the imaginary enemy variety?
There is nothing in history to corobborate the story of the massacre of the innocents - it is made up in the book of Matthew.
More made up nonsense; if you want to look at real massacres of innocents then a good place to start would be the history of the church.
It is not the devil that commits evil - it is man. Quite often the religious self-righteous being the most guilty of evil acts which they -christians included - would name "martyrdom" as if that's some sort of excuse for murder and "spreading gods word" as their misnomer for "spreading discord with anybody who does not accept our views"
How deep a mine do we have to dig to get to awd Nick?
Or is he just a completely made up invention of the imaginary enemy variety?
There is nothing in history to corobborate the story of the massacre of the innocents - it is made up in the book of Matthew.
More made up nonsense; if you want to look at real massacres of innocents then a good place to start would be the history of the church.
It is not the devil that commits evil - it is man. Quite often the religious self-righteous being the most guilty of evil acts which they -christians included - would name "martyrdom" as if that's some sort of excuse for murder and "spreading gods word" as their misnomer for "spreading discord with anybody who does not accept our views"
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