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It’s that time of year when families get together, we put fully grown trees in our living room, and we exchange gifts all in honor of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. But a careful reader of the infancy stories will note that the Bible never mentions the date of Jesus’s birth. Perform even the most cursory of Google searches and you’ll be confronted by a wealth of conspiracy theories...

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