It's the time of year when the nativity narrative gets mangled into memes in an attempt to advance the leftist political agenda. Y'all know what I'm talking about. The ones where Jesus family is portrayed as "homeless" or "refugees" or whatever.
The fact is that Joseph, Mary and Jesus had a home. They were compelled by an oppressive government bent on extracting more taxes from them (notice how nobody ever makes that comparison), to travel to Joseph's ancestral home in order to register for more taxes. Clearly their situation is that of travelers being unable to find a hotel, than of the homeless. Now, one could make the case that their flight into Egypt (later) is akin to modern day refugees, but certainly not the nativity story.
The newest version of this is the "unplanned pregnancy" meme, essentially comparing Mary to some girl who gets knocked up. Of course, if one looks at the prophetic aspect then not only was this pregnancy planned, but it was planned and predicted hundreds of years before. Oh, and wasn't Joseph's home in Nazareth? But, wasn't the Messiah prophesied to be born in Bethlehem?
Unplanned, homeless, refugees, really? Sounds like God just might be sovereign after all.
Oh, and of course they were Jewish.
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I just don't get how they can equate the Joseph and Mary situation with that of Syrian refugees. Jesus was targeted specifically, though Herod didn't know exactly which newborn was Him. Thus, he chose to murder every child under 2. None of the parents of those kids knew what was about to befall them. Only Joe and Mary did, so they bolted as if there was a hit on their kid, which there was. Someone with a contract on them might indeed be similar to a refugee since such a person is seeking refuge from danger. So are those fleeing war.
But, c'mon. We're talking a couple with a baby, not hundreds or thousands of people with unknown numbers of miscreants hiding among them. What's more, the Christmas story does not suggest that Joe and the family were looking to be given all manner of freebies, or that he wasn't willing and/or able to pay his way. And then they only hid out 'till the heat was off, and then went home. They didn't impose their cultural peculiarities upon the people of the host nation, raising the crime rate and helping themselves to gov't handouts.
Of course what's the point of scripture if a bunch of first world white leftists can't twist if for political gain.
Well, sure, it was an "unplanned pregnancy" for Mary ... and Joseph. But how that works into the Left's hands I can't figure. She would, I suppose, have been heroic if she had aborted that baby. It really was, apparently, all about a woman's choice. Oh, wait, I remember when Zechariah exercised his choice to question the angel's ideas of his upcoming son and got struck dumb for it. Hey! Where's his choice? Oh, yeah, he's a guy. He doesn't get choice.
They have to go a long way to make this a SJW meme.
But planned by God, the other difference is that this unplanned pregnancy was because Mary was virtuous, not because she wasn't.
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