As my daughters will tell you, I love complaining about how when I was a little kid we only had six television stations.\u00a0 That made Christmas season really special even for us little Jewish children because that\u2019s when they would broadcast cartoons at night!\u00a0 Okay, so the ones about Frosty and Rudolph were pretty lame, but there were also the Grinch (Chuck Jones! Boris Karloff!) and, of course, Charlie Brown.<\/p>\n
I loved Charlie Brown\u2019s Christmas special\u2026all the way up to the point where Linus starts getting all preachy about Jesus.\u00a0 Then I would just tune out. \u00a0Why did they have to put that boring crap in the cartoon? \u00a0Even as a six-year old I thought it was so lame.<\/p>\n
In high school I met all of the adult Linuses who couldn\u2019t stop talking about Jesus and his miraculous birth, leading me to want to know the real story. \u00a0In rabbinical school I took several classes from the great New Testament scholar Michael Cook.\u00a0 Here is what I learned\u2026.<\/p>\n
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As my daughters will tell you, I love complaining about how when I was a little kid we only had six television stations.\u00a0 That made Christmas season really special even for us little Jewish children because that\u2019s when they would broadcast cartoons at night!\u00a0 Okay, so the ones about Frosty and Rudolph were pretty lame, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,14,15],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-fundamentalist-christianity","tag-history","tag-holidays"],"yoast_head":"\n