Considering that Xmas is in winter, and that NO shepherds take their sheep out in the depths of winter, the whole thing is beyond mad.

Summers, yes. Later summer, possible.

Same with Easter, both of them solar celebrations. X-mas, winter solstice, shortest day of winter, there abouts.

Easter, equinox, and figured on a Paschal, lunar month calendar? More BS. Summer within a month of so, likely. Guess they didn't know that, either so Easter moves around.

Next stars do NOT come to rest over a village, much less a larger city. The whole of the stars, as the earth turns on axis, moves from West to East in a regular way.

Thus if it was over Bethlehem, it would soon NOT be a few hours later. NO stars EVER come to rest, as the earth is in constant motion on its axis and on its elliptical orbit about the sun.

The whole pagan dating of Easter and Xmas are made to pre-empt the older pagan dating systems. The priests rewrote it. Since most of Jeshua's disciples knew him and his family, is it likely there were ignorant of his birthday?

No. but where is that stated in Matt, Mark, Luc and John? EREWHON. and you think that it's not funny?

So Satan took Jeshua up on the highest Mtn. one earth, where they could see all the kingdoms or earth.

Yeah, right. Pliny knew the earth was round. highest mtn. meant needing O2 breathers and very, very warm clothing And how did they get up here, quantum teleportation?

No matter how high we go up, we cannot, on a round earth, see over the horizon. NOR all the kingdoms of the earth.

so, get real, come back to reality and adjust your Holy books before you get in worse trouble, than it took the Holy SEE to apologize to Galileo, 400 years.!!