it's a time where some adults convince children that a man with a beard has been watching them
and judging their behavior and if their behavior has satisfied this bearded fellow he will reward
them so since this is a very strange holiday for children i thought i'd look at what kids are being
taught about the birth of the son of this bearded fellow wait you thought i was talking about santa
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that would be a christmas miracle since christmas is really a time for spoiling
the kids in your life i thought i'd take a look at an animation of the birth of jesus christ
a christmas story for kids while some folks think that mary cheated on joseph and came up with
this elaborate story others genuinely do believe that all this is true and using a child-friendly
animation to teach younglings all this i'm not sure how i feel about that but let's take a look
this is the story of how jesus christ the savior of the world was born why did i choose this and
not spider-man a much more worthy savior in my opinion the story begins in a place called
nazareth nazareth was a quiet sleepy little town where most people were farmers and shepherds
correct me if i'm wrong but nazareth is in the middle east right maybe these folks here are
on vacation this one should probably watch out red hair and pale skin and the sun could get sunburned
though i guess it is december in this town there lived a young jewish woman named
mary she was a very obedient and god-fearing woman she helped her parents in the field and did her
chores in the house she was kind and helpful to everyone and people liked her very much
mary was going to get married soon to a good and honest man named joseph what is up with all these
tourists is no one from nazareth featured in this story a few days before mary's engagement she had
a visitor well with a giant hole in the wall it's hardly safe he was a very special guest
i work in voiceover and it would only take a few minor tweaks to make this story sound
very sordid a change in music and tone and we get a few days before mary's engagement
she had a visitor he was a very special guest
an angel sent by god from heaven the holy angel gabriel visited her in her room and called her
in her sleep if someone comes into your room without consent what should you do about it
and how would you know that this person even was an angel they could just be a town drunk
with a good story you'd need verification when mary opened her eyes she saw a heavenly figure
bathed in a pool of white light floating beyond her window please don't use words like bathed
and white when describing sneaky people coming into your room when you're sleeping it sounds
disgusting it wore bright white robes and had big silver wings fluttering behind him
i know i've imagined seeing things when i first woke up that morning haze is a thing but if mary
did see someone standing over her dressed in white when she woke up how can you verify it was
an angel that had wings what if she imagined it or hallucinated at first she thought she was dreaming
but later when she heard the angel's voice she realized this was no dream oh so you can't imagine
hearing voices in your sleep anymore i'm convinced i'm convinced mary do not be afraid i am gabriel
god has sent me to you he loves you and you have been chosen for something very special
your kind heart and pure soul is of great value to the lord you are fortunate that god has chosen you
above everyone else for this special task i'm not afraid i'm honored to
know that god has chosen me to carry out his wish i am lucky to be a favor to god
bless you mary god is pleased with you i have come to tell you that soon you will have a son
he will be a great king one day and he will be loved by everyone i mean as chat up lines go
that's terrible and let's not forget that gabriel was chatting up someone under 18 in fact under 16
someone who was apparently just vacationing in nazareth he will be called the son of god
mary was at first shocked at what gabriel had to say if a man dressed all in white came into
my room and i'd hallucinated wings on them and he used a chat up line like that on me
i'd be shocked too however she remained calm and listened to everything that the
angel had to say isn't that a common trauma response to freeze and hope it goes away
then she spoke to gabriel but how is this possible i'm not yet married do not be afraid mary
the spirit of the lord will take over you does anyone else feel like gabriel is grooming here
i feel a little bit sick and you will be blessed with a son he will be called the son of god
yeah no this is just wrong if this was any other situation other than an undemonstrated angel
breaking into a room the law would definitely be involved he will do great things for the people
he will be hailed as the king of jews and the savior of mankind if i say what amazing things
this kid could potentially do would you let me and my floaty sky man impregnate you why is this being
taught to kids i'm grateful for whatever the lord has done for me i'm happy to have his wish come
true through me the lord is with you mary you are blessed go in peace now i can't get it out
of my head that this is some kind of sordid scene i'm so glad that adult music stopped earlier this
could have sounded very different gabriel then left the house of mary and returned to heaven
in a few days mary became pregnant in those days it was very unusual for a girl to become
pregnant before marriage was it though conception still works the same regardless of marital status
and if mary was ray i mean visited by someone in the middle of the night and woke up to see lots of
white is it really surprising that she did end up pregnant still nothing suggests that it was a god
that did it it's still just a story however mary explained everything to joseph about the angel
and god's wish and the son they were going to have joseph was a good man and he accepted everything
no no i didn't cheat on you joseph this elaborate and unconfirmed story happened he married mary
in a few days in those days the king of the land announced a census he wanted every citizen of his
country to be counted and documented since joseph was actually from bethlehem wait he was just
visiting but from another place in the middle east why does he look like he's more northern
european in heritage he had to go there to be counted bethlehem was a long way from nazareth
joseph and mary had a long and difficult journey ahead to bethlehem
there were no cars or other means of transportation except for a donkey
the whole journey had to be made by foot mary sat on a donkey and joseph walked behind them
it was even more difficult for mary since she was going to give birth to her baby
after many many days of walking through the desert joseph and mary finally reached bethlehem
it was getting very dark when they reached the town they desperately needed a place to rest and
spend the night but all the inns were full and nobody would give them space to spend the night
mary's bump grew quick just saying joseph walked all over the town knocking at the doors of houses
and shops one after the other but nobody would allow them to come in mary was about to give
birth and it was important that she had a safe and comfortable place for the baby and herself
joseph and mary kept feeling hopeless after searching for a while joseph found an empty barn
built for cows there was plenty of fresh straw there joseph used the straw and managed to make
a bed for mary wasn't joseph supposed to be a carpenter surely he could have pulled out
his batman-esque utility belt and built her a bed with some of the wood from the barn
later in the night something magical happened poor woman she's about to give birth oh oh you mean
never mind mary gave birth to a beautiful baby boy is it technically magical when humans have been
given birth for hundreds of thousands of years whilst it is a fascinating process and extremely
difficult for the female reproductive system to do what it does it's not really magical it's
incredible but not magical unless the fact he's saying it's magical was because it was a boy but
wasn't mary told by the rape i mean angel gabriel that it was going to be a boy that's not magical
it's expected joseph made a small bed of fresh straw in the manger and laid him there it was warm
and comfortable and the baby slept happily in the manger why is the wrap that it's in glowing is it
radioactive are we witnessing the original x-men where the baby made contact with contaminated
blankets and gained the ability to walk on water and change liquid consistency and flavor
that will be a cool story mary was happy that the predictions of the angels had come
true jesus christ the savior of this world was born in a humble manger is it a prediction if all
the angels said was you all have a boy which had a certain percentage chance of happening
babies are born all the time and there's a chance it will be born male it would have been better
to have said you will have a boy that will be born in a shed next to animals the blankets you
wrap it in will glow yellow and your carpenter husband won't even build you a bed that's way
more specific that same night while joseph and mary were looking for a place to stay the night
not very far away two shepherds were out looking for their sheep on a hill
suddenly they were blinded by a bright light from the sky they opened their eyes to find a
beautiful angel in front of them with long golden hair and silver wings she wore a shimmering white
and gold dress which sparkled in the moonlight how do those men know it was an angel how could
they demonstrate it to be the case the shepherds did not know how to react and were amazed then
the angel spoke to do them be afraid i have come to give you good news tonight in the town
of bethlehem a baby boy has been born his name is jesus he will be known as the savior of the world
you will know it is jesus when you see a baby boy wrapped in a clothes in a manger
apparently it's the only kid around that has glowing blankets yeah i won't let that go go
to the villages and let everybody know of this happy news villages i thought this was in the
middle east not scandinavia this whole thing has been so inaccurate i mean other than the
fact it's a story about an undemonstrated supernatural being let everybody know that
jesus the savior of the jews was born today go in peace now and spread the good news
the shepherds were happy and shocked at the same time they were overjoyed at the fact that a savior
was born and they ran towards bethlehem to find baby jesus so they saw something they couldn't
explain that thing apparently spoke to them they accepted what it said with no questions
and ran to a whole other place to see a baby they didn't know that's a little bit creepy
the king of the jews who had been born in a humble manger i'm announcing my next child
as the king or queen of the mormons apparently just saying it makes it true when they eventually
found the baby in the manger in bethlehem they praised him and bowed down in worship
on the night that jesus was born three wise men were traveling on their camels across the desert
suddenly there felt a flash of light come down on them they looked up at the sky and they saw
a bright star it was a kind of star that they had never seen before the three wise men were
aware of the prophecy of jesus where on earth did this prophecy come from it's not a prophecy if the
event has already happened that's just called news they were waiting for the star of bethlehem to
appear and when they saw it they were overjoyed it meant that the savior of the world and the king of
the jews was born that's a massive leap a bright light could mean anything an explosion lightning
a meteor i saw a star two nights ago that i hadn't seen before does that mean i will meet the rainbow
unicorn called betty and she will be the savior of almond milk lattes at the time of jesus birth
the country was under the rule of king herod who was a very selfish and evil king when the three
wise men informed king herod of the star they had seen in the sky and what it had meant king herod
was worried that he would lose his kingdom to this baby boy wait a moment didn't king herod the great
die a year before jesus was supposedly born i know that's up for debate but some historians suggest
it is the case that he died in 5 bc there are some reports that he died in 4 bc which is when jesus
was supposedly born 4 years before bc which makes no sense and some say that herod died in 1 bc
one year before christ but actually three years after christ this is why i use bce before the
common era and the year 2021 of the common era that way you don't have to subscribe to such
nonsense he told the wise men to find the baby jesus and let him know where the baby was although
the king informed the wise men that he wanted to find the baby so he could go and worship him
herod was actually plotting to kill the child and this cuts out that herod supposedly killed
all the babies or baby boys in the land to try and find jesus something that historians
agree never actually happened he feared that jesus would grow up to overpower him someday
the three wise men followed the star for several days and found baby jesus in the manger they
were surprised to find the future king of jews lying in a barn they found the barn in which
jesus was born a few days after he was born and may have questioned why joseph had been sitting
around for a few days not building beds with his carpentry skills i mean i would have finally the
star stopped right over the manger they smiled at mary and bowed down in reverence to the new baby
they had brought gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh for the baby these were very valuable gifts
and only given to kings it was highly unusual for anybody to give these precious things to a newborn
baby just because the baby received gifts like this doesn't demonstrate that it actually was a
king these gullible folks may have just assumed that a glowing light was offering the truth
however this was no ordinary baby and the wise men fully understood the purpose of jesus's birth
and so now you know the story of christmas and how the mighty savior of the world started his journey
on earth the story shows us that great things can have small and humble beginnings to me it just
tells us that folks will believe anything it's a fun story but there are in my opinion better
kid stories out there just get a subscription to some streaming services and you'll see i think
this animation is okay for kids as long as it isn't asserted to be the truth but maybe you think
differently where do you stand with kids being taught this story let me know in the section below
for me i'm going to skeptic this off as not taking anything away from my christmas spirit don't
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