No Salvation Without Donation!

I saw this over at the Chrisendom blog…and it is hilarious!

An abundance of bachelors!…and then came Jesus?

The first character in Luke’s Christmas account to be mentioned is not Mary, Joseph, a shepherd, or even wise men for that matter. It was Caesar Augustus. But why? Scholars see this as typical of Lukan writing since he often attempted to anchor down his material with the secular history of his day.