Posted on 12/16/2016 2:20:07 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Look at this. Slate.com: "Donald Trump Is Trying to Take Ownership of the Phrase 'Merry Christmas' -- Donald Trump spoke at a rally earlier this week, and the front of the podium was a big red sign that said, 'Merry Christmas, USA.'" It only stands to reason that a bunch of secular wacko leftists would be offended by this.
I think that's why Trump did it, in part. He did it to bring it back. Christmas is a national holiday. It is from the religion that established at that the founding of this country. Not official religion; don't misunderstand me, you stoops in the media. You know what I mean. They've done their best to wipe Christianity and vestiges of all Christian holidays out of our culture. Trump is bringing it back and they're offended. Ben Mathis-Lilley writes, "So now the phrase Merry Christmas ... has been officially weaponized into the partisan slogan of a president elected on a wave of hateful rhetoric about, among others, refugees."
And he says (this is the end of this little Slate piece), "Truly, it's what a Middle Eastern Jew who was born in a barn because no one else would take his parents in would have wanted."
You know the pope is out today saying something like this? The pope is equating Mary and Joseph to Syrian and Islamic Jihad refugees, and trying to say that we in the United States better be careful because we might be rejecting the next Mary and Joseph. They've tried this before. Mary and Joseph used to be representatives of the homeless. Now they are representatives of illegal immigrants and weaponized jihadists.
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RUSH: It's a website called JihadWatch.org. This is the headline: "Pope: Christmas Reminds Us That Jesus Was a Migrant." It wasn't very long that Jesus was homeless. Well, his parents were homeless.
The homeless used Mary and Joseph to raise sympathy and awareness for the plight of the homeless and tried to frightened people and say, "You know what, if you deny that man and wife shelter, that could be the next Mary and Joseph because, you know, Mary and Joseph were homeless, and the Christ child was born of homeless parents who were turned out by an equally mean society."
And now they're doing it with jihadists. Now they're doing it with illegal immigrants. Now they're doing it with refugees. And I'm gonna tell you something, folks. Besides Angela Merkel and Obama, you gotta put the pope right in there with world leaders who are helping to spread and sanction this whole idea of Islamic supremacism based on the fact that we all need to share Islamic guilt. Comparing Jesus to the invaders of Europe who are committing all of these atrocities?
My gosh, the left has just infected everything that it has touched. It's a poison. Christmas reminds us that Jesus was a migrant. Yeah, I remember when Jesus killed 130 people in Paris. I remember when Jesus wiped out people in San Bernardino. And I remember when Jesus attacked the military at Fort Hood. Yeah. I remember when Jesus hijacked three airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center. What kind of insanity is this? It's everywhere, and it's all because Hillary Clinton lost the election.
They have all become unhinged, unable to accept it, unable to deal with losing the election.
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That’s a shame. Pray for change and that he is forced into retirement asap.
A new Pope -a true follower of Christ will revitalize the church after this charlatan resigns.
Time to get Benedict up in the bullpen.
I have a hard time believing that this Pope is even a christian.
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>> “ He went to Bethlehem because of a decree of an emperor...” <<
I hope you know better than that!
Joseph went to Jerusalem for the feast of Tabernacles, the appointed time for our Savior to be born in the place where the Passover lambs were always born.
All Men were required to go to Jerusalem for three feasts: Passover, Shavuot, and Tabernacles.
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As respectfully as possible, this pope needs to simply resign and go away. He seems to be an idiot.
This Pope is a moron.
True. Not “homeless” anymore than any of us who encountered “no vacancy” signs while traveling.
I suppose “refugee” could apply when they fled Herod - but Syrian? Muslim?
So tired of the liberal “narrative” being inserted EVERYWHERE
I am a church going Catholic and your Catholic friends are right in my opinion.
At root, all liberation theology is a Marxist rewrite of Christian theology.
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Francis is fulfilling prophecy.
It will soon be time for the “false prophet” to appear, and assist the “Man of Sin” in deceiving the people.
Those events are due about 4-1/2 years from now.
The 5th seal is over, and the 6th seal will soon be opened.
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2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while[e] Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register. 4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child.
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I prefer to go with what the scriptures said.
Anyway the feast was the reason for the decree.
Joseph obviously didn’t stay in his home town of Nazareth, but followed Yehova’s orders to go to the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem.
There was no room at any inn because millions were in town for the feast.
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Doesn’t matter. He went to Bethlehem because of the decree (because of the prophecy).
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No, he went because it was commanded of all men in Torah.
Had he not gone we would not have had “The Lamb of Yehova” to shed his blood on the mercy seat of the Ark.
The decree, if it happened at all, is irrelevent.
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Bethlehem was not the home of “Judah,” Nazareth was. That is the meaning of the name of the region. They were “Natzers” of Jessie.
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Maybe if it had a bobble head?
So, you’re saying Jesus was not born in Bethlehem?
Christ would be everyone except the Pope.
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He was born in the sheepfold of the Passover lambs.
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"The sad experience of these brothers and sisters recalls that of baby Jesus, who at the time of his birth could not find a place to stay when he was born in Bethlehem"While Rush Limbaugh changed it to this:
"The Pope Says He'd[Jesus] Be a Syrian Islamist Migrant... "Looks like Rush Limbaugh is a liar.
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