Viraldice: The Internet Took Ann Coulter Back to Sunday School After She Made This Huge Error About the Nativity Story

t's the holiday season, which means one thing – it's prime Nativity scene time.

The Nativity, or the birth of Jesus Christ, is as closely associated with Christmas as Christmas trees and tinsel. In fact, it's even more, because what is Christmas, if not a celebration of the Birth of Christ?

In fact, the very word “Christmas” comes from the phrase, Mass of Christ, and the first Christ Mass – or Christmas – was celebrated in 366 by the Roman Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Roman Emperor.

If the name Constantine rings a bell, it should, because he’s the guy who consolidated the books of the Bible and helped settle some of the tenets of Christianity, as they were.

While Jesus certainly wasn’t born on December 25, the date of his birth was placed there because there were two other Roman festivals already present at the time – “Saturnalia” and “Dies Natalis Solis Invicti,” or the day of the unconquered sun.

In any event, Christmas soon became one of the biggest holidays in the world, and everyone knew the story behind it, which is described in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.

 

In the gospels, Mary became pregnant by the Holy Spirit, a fact which distressed her husband Joseph, who planned to divorce her.