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Churches use ICE themed nativity scenes to demonize ICE agents
American Thinker ^ | December 20, 2025 | Ben Voth

Posted on 12/20/2025 6:06:48 PM PST by lonestar67

Putting baby Jesus in zip ties places the Christmas story as a polemic against the Trump administration and its immigration law enforcement. Here in Dallas and elsewhere, individuals have been motivated by these narratives to attempt to kill ICE agents. Despite the virtues signaled by many Christian pastors across the United States, the demonization of law enforcement is not consistent with the teaching and praxis of Jesus. In fact, Mary and Joseph conformed to difficult imperial mandates compelling them to move and register in the hometown of Joseph. Herod is the dark evil figure of the Christmas story, and the elite theology of American Jacobins cast ICE agents as his evil enforcers. But Jesus did not demonize the Roman soldiers that dominated the legal landscape of Judea. In fact, an arguable cause to his ultimate demise was to publicly praise a Roman soldier as having “the greatest faith in all of Israel.” This certainly did not sit well rhetorically with an elite itching to throw off the Roman Empire.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bethelem; census; censusofaugustus; christmas; church; cityofdavid; ethics; humantrafficking; ice; immigration; morals; nativity; smuggling
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The left seeks violence against ICE agents
1 posted on 12/20/2025 6:06:48 PM PST by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67

The Democratic Party is a religion.


2 posted on 12/20/2025 6:11:42 PM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: lonestar67

These are all signs of places to avoid like the plague.


3 posted on 12/20/2025 6:14:14 PM PST by xp38
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To: lonestar67

Who knew that so many churches were involved in human smuggling?


4 posted on 12/20/2025 6:19:33 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

And in stealing. And in protecting the guilty from facing justice.

It’s almost like they’ve never even heard of the Ten Commandments.


5 posted on 12/20/2025 6:23:12 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: lonestar67

Fools!


6 posted on 12/20/2025 6:23:44 PM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: lonestar67

‘Tis the season to be tribal
folly lalala la la la la


7 posted on 12/20/2025 6:25:26 PM PST by TigersEye (The primary Democrat/leftist strategy is "Create maximum chaos every which way you can.")
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To: lonestar67

Pretty darn low and against Jesus’s testimony about violence against ICE agents. Remember the story when the pharisees tried to catch Jesus in a plot to arrest him. Jesus’ reply “give unto Caesar’s what is Ceasar’s and what is God’s give to God.”


8 posted on 12/20/2025 6:27:30 PM PST by gildafarrell ("To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!")
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To: lonestar67

Play politics, lose tax exempt status. These churches should pay taxes.


9 posted on 12/20/2025 6:27:40 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: Salman
The Democratic Party is a religion cult.
10 posted on 12/20/2025 6:29:01 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits
Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem as directed, even with Mary pregnant, to be counted in the Roman census in Joseph's home town.

ICE is helping all these invaders return to their home countries to be counted correctly in their census there.

11 posted on 12/20/2025 6:31:27 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: lonestar67

These “churches” are no longer churches.
They have become secularized and political.
Their leaders have switched their allegiance from the Bible to political policy.


12 posted on 12/20/2025 6:31:53 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: lonestar67
> The left seeks violence against ICE agents <

The left seeks violence against anyone who doesn’t agree with their agenda. Even being neutral isn’t enough.

“Silence is violence.” So even the disinterested must be punished.
This cannot end well.


13 posted on 12/20/2025 6:35:19 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: lonestar67

Not Churches


14 posted on 12/20/2025 6:36:16 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: lonestar67

The county assessor will be there on Monday.


15 posted on 12/20/2025 6:48:51 PM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

The DemoRAT party is an existential enemy of this country, and had better be treated that way soon.


16 posted on 12/20/2025 6:54:05 PM PST by Da Coyote (ow big a )
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To: dadgum

Not a church. A gathering place for the damned.


17 posted on 12/20/2025 6:54:49 PM PST by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at all !!!)
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To: lonestar67

The Holy Family had to check in with Roman outposts on the Egyptian border checking for tax-evading smugglers.


18 posted on 12/20/2025 6:57:26 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: T.B. Yoits

The attempted analogy fails on all levels.


19 posted on 12/20/2025 6:58:43 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: lonestar67

How Christian of them.🙄


20 posted on 12/20/2025 7:02:14 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)T)
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