In the song "Ouro de Tolo" (Fool’s Gold), Raul Seixas sang these verses: “Oh, what a boring guy I am, who doesn’t find anything amusing. Monkey, beach, car, newspaper, waterslide – I think all of that is a drag.”
I feel the same way when the end of the year approaches because I find the special TV programs a real drag – the aging special of Roberto Carlos, the secret Santa parties among employees, and, most of all, the popular shows featuring psychics, astrologers, tarot readers, and nutritionists (because they feed on the popularity they gain during this time) with their “unfailingly accurate” predictions about celebrities’ lives. Honestly, it takes a lot of patience not to curdle the blood or sour the liver over such nonsense.
But since we are on the verge of Christmas, I rediscovered a passage from a book I read in 2015 that talks about the Star of Bethlehem. Scientists who studied the celestial map of the time when Jesus is believed to have been born dispute the existence of any celestial body even remotely resembling the description of the "star" that guided the Magi. It could have been a comet – since it remained visible for a while – but no comet with a known orbit appeared in the skies during that period.
Those with blind faith and unwavering belief in the Bible couldn’t care less about this, but it’s a topic that raises a lot of questions. And the text I read does the exact opposite of this; it offers a fascinating explanation for the emergence of the Star of Bethlehem at the time of Jesus’ birth. The reasoning, developed from historical details, seemed so sensible to me that today I believe it to be true.
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