WISE GUYS

The Church of England has decided that the Biblical wise men who brough gifts to baby Jesus may very well have been wise women:

The three wise men who brought gifts to the baby Jesus could have been women, according to the Church of England's General Synod.

The scriptures describe the people who followed a star to Bethlehem as Magi, which in translation could mean either sex....

In a report, the General Synod revision committee states that "it believes that to translate the term into something more universally understood (as the Authorised Version did) is to miss the point being made.

"Further, while it seems very unlikely that these Persian court officials were female, the possibility that one or more of the magoi were female cannot be excluded completely. The committee has retained 'Magi' on the grounds that the visitors were not necessarily wise and not necessarily men."

I have no problem with the 'magi' transliteration, although it's pretty silly to think that they were women. What we need to do is get them to admit there weren't necessarily three of them.