Using Nativity Scene to protest Immigration Services is disgusting!

Here in Indianapolis the Episcopal Church did the same thing at Christ Church Cathedral on the Circle in the very heart of downtown Indianapolis. It is stupid because Obama started it. This year the communist Pope Francis said that the current POTUS is just like King Herod. Well, Pope Francis, you are just like Benito Mussolini by going around assaulting people in public over differences in political policy, but then you were a Peronist in Argentina and Peronists are exact copies of fascists.

 

Not only is it disgusting it isnt even the same thing. Its a incorrect comparison

 

Why does Sodom surprise us at every turn?

 

Southern Baptist ethicist and commentator Russell Moore?

Moore to the Point

"nativism and bigotry...[are] what the Bible calls 'the flesh' rather than the Spirit....We need to stand against bigotry"

"our Lord Jesus himself was a so-called 'illegal immigrant'. Fleeing, like many of those in our country right now, a brutal political situation, our Lord’s parents sojourned with him in Egypt"

"there will be a day when the United States of America will no longer exist. And on that day, the sons and daughters of God will stand before the throne of a former undocumented immigrant. Some of them are migrant workers and hotel maids now. They will be kings and queens then."

 

It's an insult to Jesus, & nothing more.

Jesus was not a "undocumented immigrant" any more than anyone else. No one documented immigrants in that place/time. Many Jews traveled to Egypt; many Egyptians traveled to Judah. And a craftsman like Joseph would be especially welcome in wood-poor Egypt, where carpenters were few & far-between.

And Jerusalem had an influx of foreign merchants 6 days a week. Obviously, they were welcome, & often stayed awhile to hawk their goods & rest their camels.

 

Moore is an idiot

 

Yeah, we debated that last year. Both Israel and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire so the Holy Family were in the same country or empire it was decided. Secondly, the Holy Family had the gifts of the Magi and were not indigent. Furthermore, Joseph was a skilled craftsman. So Moore did not convince me to join the Democrat Party.

 

Moore evidently knows little Scripture or history. First, at that time, most Egyptians spoke Aramaic, as did most Jews. Most Jews & Egyptians were bilingual, if not proficiant in more than 2 languages. Aramaic was the main language used by people of different nations to communicate, with Greek being second.

Jesus could speak any language He wanted, with His supernatural intelligence & knowledge. He likely spoke hebrew with His disciples, insteada Aramaic, as many suppose. (Remember, at the "first pentecost", Peter & the others who were preaching evidently did so in Hebrew, as they had a "Galilean" accent.)

And immigration was VERY common, as were foreign visitors to all the nations in that area. Jerusalem was visited by foreign caravans of merchants 6 days a week, who often tarried to rest their camels. And so was Egypt. Caravans went both ways thru Egypt & Judea constantly, & had done so for several millenia.

And, as CMG said above, both Egypt & Judea were part of the Roman empire, so, while Jesus wasn't a Roman citizen as Paul was, He was a Roman subject, as were His earthly parents.

 

Oh, barf.