Amazon Labels Nativity Story as ‘Holiday Fiction’

[Banacek]

Amazon is touting a new children’s book narrating the birth of Jesus Christ as its “#1 New Release in Children’s Christian Holiday Fiction.”

The book The First Christmas, by Breitbart Rome Bureau Chief Thomas D. Williams, is an illustrated children’s poem describing the nativity of Jesus in anapestic tetrameter, the same poetic meter used in Clement Clarke Moore’s classic Christmas poem, A Visit from Saint Nicholas.

Unlike A Visit from Saint Nicholas and other “holiday” poems, however, Williams’s book actually tells the Nativity story exactly as recounted in the gospels of Saints Luke and Matthew, without the addition of fictional embellishments.

By calling the work “Holiday Fiction,” therefore, Amazon would seem to suggest it believes that the birth of Jesus as recounted in the Christian Bible is simply an imaginative fabrication.

A fabrication is deliberately creating something not true. Books and such which pass down lore through the ages are not. There are many thousands of people believe Atlantis existed. The belief that Atlantis existed was originally "lore"passed down through the ages.

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019...liday-fiction/

[noonwitch]

If the story adds any details beyond the Biblical narrative in Luke, then it is fiction.