The Christmas story is like the Star Wars prequels. [View all]

[edhopper]

I was on a discussion thread talking about the 3 Star Wars prequel movies. While some defended them, many of us pointed out how bad the story was and how much of it contradicted the three main movies (A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi)
It occurred to me it is like the story of Jesus' birth. The myth makers had to make him special, fulfill certain prophecies and ended up the preacher they write about later. But in doing so, they end up with historical and self-contradictory elements that just make the reader (or viewer in the case of Star Wars) ignore whole parts of it.

Yes this is just thinking out loud and not a concise treatise on the whole thing. It's half-baked, much like the tale of the birth in the manger.