I'm sure you all know–whether Hindu or Muslim or Shinto or Jew–the Jesus story ...

that 'Christianity' heavily promotes the celebration of His first Earth-birth at Christmas, His death on 'Dead Friday' (or whatever the Christian-calendar calls it ... I may have changed it to avoid calling it the modern industrial name for the-day-after-Thanksgiving), and His resurrection on Easter.

This is not a tearing-down of those beliefs, but rather a 'rebuilding' of them; starting with the crèche–the French Nativity-scene.

You've probably seen one like it, featuring the three wise-men/Magi, the 3-or-4 shepherds, baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and some farm-animals, all crowded together in a stable with an angel hovering overhead.

I think–because of that teaching-tool–people start to misunderstand 'Christmas' as a one-moment event ... it is not! and that is where the atheistic anarchists (the 'tearers') start their tear-down work.

"The Nativity-scene," they might say, "never actually happened—

"the angel–appearing to Mary and then to Joseph to tell them why they needed to be on the move, and appearing to the shepherds and to the Magi to tell them of the Christ's birth–was never anywhere near the stable,

"Mary and Joseph were alone in the stable when the miracle-of-childbirth took place, the shepherds didn't get there until the following night or sometime that week, and the Magi didn't even start heading there until the 'king' heard the news the shepherds managed to send."

The tearers then conclude that Christmas is a 'sham,' and that therefore Christianity is a liars' religion. While I agree with their facts, I disagree with their conclusion.

So the people weren't all there on the same day, and we celebrate it on one day every so-often; does that mean that celebration is a "lie"? I think not! That would be like saying a graduation-ceremony is a "lie" because it celebrates all the things you learned thoughout the years-past.

And the Nativity-scene is not a "lie" because it was not intended as a 'historical marker,' but rather as a visual reminder: the people in the stable were influenced by the angel to all end up having-been-there.

And the date is off. According to the night-skies, Jesus was born July 7; but the date doesn't matter. I could go into all the "reasons" the Christian church 'moved' Jesus's birthday to December 25, but–rather than review church-history–I would rather remind everyone that it's not a celebration of 'a moment in history' but one of celebration for the birth of a special group of ideas.

About 'Dead Friday,' the tearers will tell you that he might never actually have died. That instead he went into three days of deep-deep-deep medition while they 'killed' him. Though Christians may not actually "celebrate" this, it is still deeply revered. You could call this a remembrance of the fact that good ideas fall hard.

With that 'never having died,' you can see how tearers might insert their thoughts on the resurrection. I haven't heard anything against that "ascencion into heaven"-bit, but I'm guessing it didn't actually happen that way (forgive me for a bit of irrevocable Gnosticism lol). But Easter is the celebration of the fact that "You can't keep a good idea (a 'God-Man') down!"

You might call this group of ideas "Christianity," I've heard it called "lassez-faire" (which [to me] means 'life as it happens'), I've called it many things (including 'Catholicism' [to me a sort of all-around righteousness], 'logic' [which some refer to as "the gift of God"] and 'humanism' [sort of the thinking behind Christianity]); but the group of ideas we celebrate is sort of an "ev`rything's `gonna be alright if you serve the greatest higher-power."

In the world, I believe the greatest higher-power is 'the ability to extend comfort'—if you 'serve that power' to others, others will 'serve that power' to you!