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Unto us another child is born

18 December 2019

12:03 PM

18 December 2019

12:03 PM

“It’s quite humbug to say that this is not a ridiculing of the founder of the Christian religion and of the Incarnation, in an extremely tenth-rate way,” wrote journalist and author Malcolm Muggeridge at the release of Monty Python’s classic comedy, Life of Brian.

This year is the fortieth anniversary of the film that was courting controversy even before it was made.

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