No. Mary and Joseph were working stiffs traveling to go pay confiscatory taxes to their government. They were not immigrants, illegals, or migrant workers. They had a lodging problem, not a wealth or foreigner problem. Mary and Joseph were working stiffs traveling to go pay confiscatory taxes to their government. They were not immigrants, illegals, or migrant workers. They had a lodging problem, not a wealth or foreigner problem.
Exactly correct.
True. But I would submit that during their sojourn into Egypt shortly thereafter, they "were" migrant workers (but certainly NOT either illegals or immigrants). I'm sure God provided, and that provision was almost certainly "work". Probably mostly for Joseph, but ????.
You can say that again...
Oh wait. You did.
I think that the Pope needs to read his Bible instead of watching msnbc. Mary and Joseph were not escaping problems in their own land, but were returning to their (Joseph’s) home city to pay taxes.
They did not arrive in Bethlehem demanding help from the city, but just wanted a place to sleep for the night.
The Pope’s analogy is not even close.
Thank you, exactly. How dare that man compare Jesus and His family to welfare scroungers?
AND THEY WEREN’T HOMELESS EITHER. Beside, don’t the Muslim men leave the women behind in the War Zone?