Look, Son (of God), December 25 is not even your birthday.
Quote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-surprise-you/
Dec. 25 is not the date mentioned in the Bible as the day of Jesus’s birth; the Bible is actually silent on the day or the time of year when Mary was said to have given birth to him in Bethlehem. The earliest Christians did not celebrate his birth. By most accounts, the birth was first thought — in around 200 A.D. — to have taken place on Jan. 6.
One of the prevalent theories on why Christmas is celebrated on Dec. 25 was spelled out in “The Golden Bough,” a highly influential 19th-century comparative study of religion and mythology written by the anthropologist James George Frazer and originally published in 1890. (The first edition was titled “The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion”; the second edition was called “The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion.” By the third printing, in the early 20th century, it was published in 12 volumes, though there are abridged one-volume versions.)
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But let's not let 12 volumes of theological scholarship get in the way of a good time. Happy birthday!
So what have you got planned for the day? Busy delivering gifts, I imagine.