MH>> people would have to leave their homes. This was a society when most
MH>> people lived and died in their hometowns. Most likely, only a few
MH>> people would ever have to make the trip.

MH>> How do you know? Were you there? Granted, there was not an actual
MH>> star in the literal sense. But could an omnipotent God not have
MH>> created a point of light -- which people of the time would describe
as
MH>> a star -- and use it as a guide?

DC> Seems that the Chinese has a rather developed astronomy at the time,
DC> as well as many other groups in the middle east.  Strange, they
DC> fail to mention that "point of light".

ROFL!  And Mikey wonders why he's called a fundy.  He happens to be a
literalist, as his clinging to every detail of this silly virgin birth
myth demonstrates.

--- Hymen
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