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...those not astronomically inclined, however, the star continues to work just fine as a symbol. With skepticism but not without poetry, A.N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life, notes, "Astronomers will never find the real star of Bethlehem because the real star of Bethlehem is a thing of our imagination. It's the light shining over the Christ Child...
...case of fish out of water. ("Like a meeting of Iranian ayatullahs in Nebraska," quips Theodore Jennings Jr. of the Chicago Theological Seminary.) This impression may have been no accident, since it expressed Matthew's growing frustration at the majority of fellow Jews who dismissed his messianic claims for Jesus and may have ostracized and persecuted some of his co-believers. Thus it was the Magi rather than Jews who followed the star to Jerusalem and innocently alerted Herod. In a dire foreshadowing of Christ's Passion, Matthew reports that rather than being helpful, the half-Jewish King...
...Away in a manger/ No crib for His bed/ The little Lord Jesus/ Laid down His sweet head...
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO SEE A CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THE DEVOUTNESS OF YOUR GRAMMY-NOMINATED HIT JESUS WALKS AND THE PROFANITY AND SEXUAL CONTENT ON THE REST OF YOUR ALBUM...
...like the last song of the album. It'd be like a real soft-beat piano, never the beats that you would actually get for your [big songs]. It's a subject matter that people now see can be successful. If you take a memorable melody like [singing] "Jesus walks,"then you take the hottest producer and distinctive drum programming. What is a subject matter that almost everybody relates...