So Jesus is born under the following conditions. First, Emperor Godly, in his infinite wisdom, decides to enroll the whole world. Second, for no better reason than that, Joseph must leave his home in Nazareth to go about seventy miles south to Bethlehem to participate in the census. Third, for no reason given in the text whatsoever, Mary—still not Joseph’s wife in some sense, pregnant, and close to term—travels with him, and while there gives birth. There is not enough space wherever they are staying