oh this is brilliant

england's oldest anglican bishop threw his congregants for a loop this sunday, when he preached that the tale of jesus is in fact the "story of a baby born to an unmarried mother from a religious family with all the cultural and social pressures you can imagine. the shepherds, far from being the loveable characters in nativity plays, were actually then on the fringes of society. and the wise men, in addition to bearing gifts, were on a mission from herod to discover the whereabouts of the baby jesus so he could be killed." niiiice. that spices up my holiday! er, wait, no it doesn't. i'm jewish.