Posted on 12/26/2025 9:09:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
Far-left Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) likened Jesus, Mary, and Joseph to illegal migrants in a Christmas Day post depicting a nativity scene being raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“May this be the last Christmas we live this nightmare,” the California congressman wrote on X, along with a photo of spray-painted ICE agents breaking into the Bethlehem stable where Jesus was born. […]
The prevalent left-wing claim that Jesus was a refugee is considered by many Christians to be historically inaccurate. As Breitbart News’s Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., described, Jesus was born in Joseph’s ancestral hometown of Bethlehem, after which his parents fled with him to Judea when King Herod set out to kill all baby boys. The family temporarily settled in Egypt, which was part of the Roman empire at the time. They returned to their home in Galilee when Herod died, and Jesus spent most of his growing up years there. …
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He absolutely does not have to say things like that.
How many people did Joseph kill while DUI? Or rapes? Or commit acts of violence? How many millions did Mary defraud the government? Until they can prove those criminal acts, they are liars.
Very old playbook:
Genesis
3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say,
That seems to be their favorite Bible reference lately.
Commies hate the Bible.
As Lenin once wrote, “We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism and, consequently, of Marxism.”
Commies hate the Bible.
As Lenin once wrote, “We must combat religion—that is the ABC of all materialism and, consequently, of Marxism.”
This.
The Holy Family were not illegal immigrants because they weren't crossing illegally into a foreign land--it was all part of the Roman empire. What they were doing is placing themselves out of danger from the wrath of a local ruler. It kind of being like someone fleeing from New York to Texas to flee persecution from the governor of New York.
Also from the article: “The prevalent left-wing claim that Jesus was a refugee is considered by many Christians to be historically inaccurate.” Particularly noticeable is the phrase: “considered by many Christians to be historically inaccurate.” How very reasonable this sounds. It is considered historically inaccurate because it IS inaccurate. But, again, the left is always historically inaccurate.
Which they were required to do by LAW!
That traitor should have been hanged for sleeping with a Chinese communist spy!
Jesus, Mary and Joseph were LEGITIMATE refugees when they fled to Egypt. All infants of a certain age were subject to immediate execution, by order of Herod.
Correct.
That’s assuming Agent Smith can even read at all.
He’s not up on MUCH knowledge.
That’s right.
If any at all.
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. “Reality control”, they called it: in Newspeak, “doublethink”. …Orwell’s 1984 was based on reality. The left really operates like that. There apparently was a joke saying in the USSR: “The future is certain; it’s the past that keeps changing.”
Sure, that is why they were going to the Israeli census for King Herod. Love how atheists are always telling Christians what the Bible says.
Immigrants are housed in 1st class hotels and you and I are charged for their upkeep.
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