I’ve been telling y’all for years that any properly-educated seminarian knows perfectly well that the traditional Christian/Christmas narrative is nonsense; so far as Biblical scholars are concerned, that’s a settled fact.
What do you know? Jerry Coyne is on the same page.
Sophisticated Theologians™ tell us all the time that only Biblical literalists or fundamentalists believe the stories in the Bible. God is, they say, much more “nuanced,” and most believers are closer to Kierkegaard than to Ken Ham.
Well, I call bullshit on that.
Read the entire thing. The distance between the pews, and the truth that is well-known to their pastors, is indecent.