Hmm...
"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered." (Luke 2:1-6)
Hmm...
did they do this while Obama was president and if not why not? It was his policy.
They’ve been there since Obama!
Of course. Are the in Authoritarian Ocasio Cortez’s (h/t David Knight) “concentration camps”?
Claremont UMC. Karen Clark Ristine, senior pastor.
Nuff said. Apostacy on steroids.
So Mary RENTED Jesus from a trafficker and shared no DNA with him..?
It’s not a nativity scene when the church claims the infant is two years old. A Nativity scene is when just having been born, the baby Jesus lays in a manger surrounded by Mother Mary and Father Joseph.
Very nice way to honor your religion. Involve some of its major characters in a political statement. Very cool.
(Do I really need a sarcasm tag)
If we were Muslims subjected to this sort of blasphemy, someone’s head would be on a pike as a warning to the others.
It figures.
At least they haven’t sold off the baby as body parts.
Maybe next year.
Oh Geeeez, What next, electrified barbed wire fences, watch towers and German Sheppard dogs? Take it to the extreme while you’re at it. Caged?? Its not like we are keeping them in, we want to keep them out. If all these bleeding heart liberal good doers want to help, let them go to the countries that the illegals came from, and start there to help them change for the better.
If I recall - churches that make political statements for/against candidates lose their non-profit status...
But I’m sure the FFRF will be all over this
Create a Christmas card of it and send it to the 0bama digs at Martha’s Vineyard mansion.
The author is off base as are the fabricators of the separated Holy Family on the border.
It was not about the journey to Bethlehem to pay taxes that was the refugee story. It was the fight to Egypt to escape Herod who ordered all children under a certain age to be killed.
The flight of the Holy family to Egypt was a flight for true refugee status. There was no need to separate the family to determine if they were being trafficked or doing it themselves.
While in Egypt, they did not live
off the Egyptians, nor steal identity nor did they enter Egypt by lying.
Further, when the cause of their need for asylum passed they went home.
It’s not a nativity, and it’s not Jesus, Mary and Joseph. They were forced to go to Bethlehem, in spite of being poor, by the taxing authorities, to register to pay f*cking TAXES! Must have been a democrat administration.
Sorry, can’t get too worked up over self imposed mental illness.
Claremont United Methodist Church is (duh) located in the same city as Claremont Theological School, a Methodist seminary where the Bible is not held in high regard. So any thought of Methodist clergy in that geographical location being impressed with the actual words of the Bible will be met with a robust snore.