Loners

Who knows when, exactly, Christ was really born.

As you know, the date is simply a holdover from the Pagan Winter Solstice festivities.

Jesus' purported life story (his greatness as an activist and philosopher notwithstanding), a retelling of the Osiris myth.

Biblical scholars themselves agree that December would've been a most unlikely date given the presence of shepherds at the time (suggesting Spring) or the "Star of Bethlehem" - almost certainly a Jupiter/Saturn conjunction whose closest occurrence, astronomers tell us, would have been in October, 7 BC.

In short, no one knows - not clergy, and certainly not televangelists.

So, yes: A Very Happy Festivus to you and yours too, dupagelib.

And a Happy New Year.