In article <982dnUTlDNb3YTbSnZ2dnUVZ5qudnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Mike Painter <md.painter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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.

"The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke, 1955.

-- 
Odysseus