[GLDNGUN]

Or it could just be that there was no Jesus and as such any date chosen for his birth is just arbitrary.

Oh, yeah. THAT must be it. NOT.

[gcruse]

Oh, yeah. THAT must be it. NOT.

I used to posit a historical Jesus, whether he was Christ or not, but even that doesn't look too likely any more.  The forty year gap between 'resurrection' and the writing of Mark should have been filled with such religious turbulence it would have made the Antioch Evening News.  There was just Paul, and his writings suggest he had little to go on besides the Damascus apparition.