Christmas is a wonderful time of the year, but it needn't be chintzy. This sleek nativity set, for instance, brings some simple good design to the festive period.

Merry Christmas! Wanna see how it all would have gone down in today's modern world? Well Joseph H. Christ and Mary H. Christ have taken to Twitter to recount the birth of Jesus. It's blasphemous and hilarious. Enjoy!

It all starts when Holy Mary gets an SMS from God, and Joseph.Carpenter07@gmail.com has to quickly prepare a trip to Bethlehem. [Thanks Lola!]

Were you told the version of the Christmas story with the three wise men or the Fantastic Four? What about the one where a T-Rex crashed the birthday celebration? Some awesome dioramas offer an irreverent take on the Nativity.

Just before Christmas we learned that a baby Jesus statue in a Bal Harbor Florida nativity scene was being equipped with GPS to ensure that a theft earlier in the month would not be repeated. Apparently, a similarly equipped statue from a nativity in Wellington Florida actually resulted in the arrest of 18-year-old…