On 5/9/2012 9:46 AM, Fidem Turbare, the non-existent atheist goddess wrote:

This one is too funny not to share with alt.atheism and alt.astronomy:

http://www.peppertop.com/greys/2010/12/nativity/

There is an old Science fiction story about a Jesuit priest coming back through space after visiting the remnants of a super Nova that explained perfectly the star story.
It turne out that the explosion had destroyed an advanced civilization.