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The Importance of Gentile Interest in the Gospels
Caroline Norman writes, the wise men were astrologers who visited Christ after his birth. So they led to the slaughter of the Holy Innocence. This hypothesis would be that because the major were astrologer that that's an evil occult practice and as proof of that. The innocent babies in Bethlehem got killed. Matthew does not present the major as bad guys who were doing something that is evil and a cult. He presents them as good guys who took undertook this big journey to go meet the Messiah.