{"id":117,"date":"2004-02-15T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2004-02-15T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T04:30:00","slug":"117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Three Fairly Sagacious Persons<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Church of England abandons the term “Three Wise Men” for “Magi”–unfortunately, it’s just kneejerk political correctness rather than a reappraisal of Zoroastrian influence on the birth of Christianity. Read more here<\/a>, and don’t overlook the joke at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Three Fairly Sagacious Persons The Church of England abandons the term “Three Wise Men” for “Magi”–unfortunately, it’s just kneejerk political correctness rather than a reappraisal of Zoroastrian influence on the birth of Christianity. 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