Posted on 09/06/2015 4:15:02 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A pastor appearing on CNN Monday morning gave a novel excuse for why people should stop saying the words “illegal immigrant”: because Jesus was an illegal immigrant.
“Well, not only was Jesus a rebel, but Jesus was an undocumented immigrant himself when he fled to Egypt seeking persecution [sic] in his day,” said Rev. Ryan Ellers in a debate with CNN conservative contributor S.E. Cupp. “So the question becomes [would] we call Jesus himself illegal if he were, you know, in our modern times?”
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What a fool and tool.
So because of what may have happened in Jesus’ time, that means we have to have amnesty for illegal aliens and have open borders???? What is the connection??? What reasoning ability do these people use????
Jesus fled to Egypt?
Perpetual heretic BS. Jesus was...homeless, poor, grew up in a single-parent home, supported taxing the rich, healed the centurion’s gay servant [surely you have read THAT one]...and now he’s an illegal alien.
The Lord has His own way of dealing with slander, so it would be best to step aside and let Him handle it in accordance with His will.
Matthew 2:13-23
Some idiot on my facebook page stated that “remember, Jesus was a liberal.” I replied “sure he was. He would have really loved divorce and that old abortion thingie.”
Funny, I never got a reply.
What the...
Jesus also went back home.
But was he “seeking persecution”?
Isn’t it interesting how they mock Him, they disparage Him, and they deny Him, and then turn around and claim Him as one of their own?
Liberalism is a mental disorder
The Goth and Huns were illegal aliens too...
God told Joseph to go to Egypt. He would not have told him to do something illegal. Just ugh. Wait til the Zpope comes next week with his misinterpretation of the Catevhism.
I’m a baby boomer but really enough with this generation ruining everything
According to Alex griswold:
The Gospel of Matthew does indeed tell of Jesus, May, and Joseph fleeing from Bethlehem to Egypt to avoid the evil King Herod. But at the time, Egypt and Palestine weren’t different countries; they were both Roman provinces. In that light, the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt is less like sneaking into Texas from Mexico, and more like sneaking into Texas from New Mexico. In short, he may have been a “migrant” very broadly speaking, but never an immigrant.
In any case, it’s perfectly possible the Holy Family went through the legal channels, meaning they wouldn’t be “undocumented” in any sense; the narrative just never says one way of the other”
Alexander Griswold is a research assistant at the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Alexander graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in political science and a minor in philosophy. @HashtagGriswold
BINGO!
While it is true that Jesus family traveled down to Egypt to avoid Herod’s order to kill all Children under two years of age, the territories of the Bible were pretty much open in that age.
People were free to travel from one place to another. Borders weren’t closed as they are today.
Jesus’ family wasn’t doing something against Egypt’s laws.
For one thing, Jesus only “rebelled” against the perversion of the faith.
He wasn’t “sticking it to da man...”
I doubt that when Joseph and Mary took their child to Egypt after being tipped off that the King had ordered the KILLING of all male children of the stated age, that they went on Egyptian welfare, social security, etc... Or VOTED for the democrat Pharoah. Lol.
The whole argument is ridiculous.
Well someone could have asked him if he obeys everything Jesus tells him to do
Sometimes you just have to answer their stupid questions. Yes, if Jesus came across the Mexican border, key word - illegally, that would make him illegal. Trees are trees, and blue is blue.
No. In fact He instructed to obey roman law. He was criticizing religious law as it had gone too far away from Gods intent of loving ourselves and others
They tried this crap with Obama in 2008....”Jesus was a community organizer”....
Clergy trivializing the Son of God are unworthy of remaining clergy.
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