But atheists who claim to be “working for a more rational world” really should be more careful than harried journalists when presenting the “real history” of the season. So each “pagan Christmas” article echoes the previous ones, like an endless succession of ghosts of Christmas past. Unfortunately, when Andrews recently ventured into the history behind Christmas, – in a podcast/video called “What Christians (Probably) Don’t Know About Christmas” – the result was a mangled mish-mash of confused myths, pseudo history and total nonsense. Both are Classics scholars and both are, like me, just as happy to debunk Christian bad history as any other. Similarly, McDaniel’s articles on early Christianity are even-handed and equally hard on both Christian and non-Christian claims about history that are unfounded.