So the silly season, the festive season when we celebrate the incarnation of the Good is looming, yet again, and the nightmare and the blessedness is part of the Western legacy; we don’t have to be sectarian about it. And of course the Christmas story is set in under the shadow of Roman rule during the reign of that cruel debauchee Tiberius.
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