{"id":8395,"date":"2002-11-29T17:35:36","date_gmt":"2002-11-29T22:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/29\/nativity-negativity\/"},"modified":"2002-11-29T17:35:36","modified_gmt":"2002-11-29T22:35:36","slug":"nativity-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/nativity-negativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity Negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>A school in Bedfordshire has banned video cameras from<br \/>\nits nativity play, because it&#8217;s worried that the images may get into the hands<br \/>\nof paedophiles.<\/font> [<font color=#3333ff><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/2522561.stm\" target=_blank>Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a><\/font>]<\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The three wise men have been banned from a church<br \/>\nnativity play because members insist they were not around at the birth of<br \/>\nChrist. In fact, members of the Porth Christian Centre at Elim Pentecostal<br \/>\nChurch, in the Rhondda, south Wales, dispute several points in the traditional<br \/>\ninterpretation of the birth of Christ.<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/wales\/1072177.stm\" target=_blank>Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>As for the second story I remember reading in Frank Sheed&#8217;s<br \/>\nbook <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0898704197\/qid=1038586177\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/002-7713482-3572015?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\"\ntarget=_blank>To Know Christ Jesus<\/a> that he stated the same thing. Because of<br \/>\nthe passage in Luke 2: <font color=#3333ff>offer a sacrifice according to what<br \/>\nis said in the law of the Lord, &#8220;a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.&#8221;,<br \/>\n<font color=#000000>which was the required offering for those who could not<br \/>\nafford a lamb they must not have already received gifts of gold, frankincense,<br \/>\nand myrrh.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read this book from Frank Sheed, run don&#8217;t walk to our<br \/>\nnearest bookstore. I think this is the best of the life of Christ style books. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school in Bedfordshire has banned video cameras from its nativity play, because it&#8217;s worried that the images may get into the hands of paedophiles. [Full story] The three wise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}