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Nicholas Kristof’s Fake Virgin Births and NPR’s Pagans

Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan “High Priestex” in Kansas performing rituals at the Winter Solstice.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a column over the weekend titled “A Conversation About the Virgin Birth That Maybe Wasn’t.”

On Twitter, Alan Cornett, a former assistant to author Russell Kirk summed it up: “Imagine the media of record doing this every year for any other faith’s holy days.” Most of us would get specific, and say, imagine the New York Times doing this for Islam. 

Kristof began his interview with Princeton religion professor Elaine Pagels: “Your book raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been…

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