Explainer explains Christmas

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Explainer explains Christmas

12-24-2009, 10:40 PM

How do you become a mall Santa? Why do we eat turkey? Was Jesus a popular name back then? and more...

http://www.slate.com/id/2239359/

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12-24-2009, 11:06 PM

He's slightly wrong about the name. In Hebrew his name would be Yoshua which is Joshua in English. Jesus is a corrupted form of the name.

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