Secular Pinoy

The idea of a census as described in the Bible is implausible in itself. I think there was a thread here a while back discussing it.

lpetrich

Coupled with a complete lack of record of any other census where one has to go back to one's ancestral town -- if such a census happened, then lots of historians would mention all the grumbling it would provoke.

One of the last sane

This would have required some acrobatic skill on the part of Mary, since a manger is an eating-trough located in a stable or barn. I have heard that Jebus was laid in a manger (which would do nicely as an impromptu crib) but I always assumed that was after he was born, cord cut, all that stuff. Assuming he existed that is, which I don't think he did.

Amos

He went to give an account of himself, like a confession. Joyce held that Joseph was pregnant with despair and needed to give an account of himselfs and this is how Christ was born from Joseph.