Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/08/christ-in-a-cage.html
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Nice. This happened in my hometown, where even the churches are mostly comprised of left-wing peacenik types.
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And then, they don’t keep records for where the kid ends up, so we don’t really know who the “holy child” is.
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“What Child is This?” isn’t just a Christmas carol anymore.
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Its striking how all the religious founders were refugees-- not just Jesus, but Muhammad and Moses too.
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Krishna, Buddha, Ghanesh… you might mean how all the middle east prophets …
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If not having a register helped save Jesus from Herod, then it should be enough for those (other) brown kids. /s
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Cue the IRS trying to strip this church of its tax exempt status in 3… 2… 1…
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You can see some other nativity scenes they have done over the years here. 2013 is about Treyvon Martin.
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I wouldn’t normally think of Krishna and Ganesh as being founders of religions…
(Although you could probably say the same thing about Moses, while we’re at it.)
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and L. Ron Hubbard, David Koresh, Jim Jones…
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Joe Smith.
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Didn’t the parents of Jesus move from one part of the Roman Empire to another part? Herrod was only a client king.
I mean, the political message is fine enough but… that’s not how the story went, is it? Is it more or less convincing if you mangle to story to make a point?
I think, if you are going to use Christianity to make a point about this you could do a lot more with just the fact that for all its faults (life-long atheist, here, so take with a grain of salt) the message of Christ is entirely uninterested in barriers of nationality (seeing as it predates them) and, mostly, class.
That seems salient. This just seems… odd. Or do I have my 1st century history all wrong?
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Very interesting and on the point remark, and, as a fellow atheist, I admire your absence of leniency for facts. But this is religion we are dealing with. And so morals, emotional appeals et al. If you accept the Flight Into Egypt part (see here) then the refugee thing is a bit more to the point. I have no idea about the leanings and acceptations of that Methodist Church in particular; the church COULD use another example from the Bible to lecture the actual POTUS and his vizirs on refugees and whatnot by taking a cue from the Exodus, but since that is also not based on fact… MY take on it, and Jesus was keen on pointing this out, something that is LEGAL does not necessarily mean it’s MORAL (and right).
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According to Christian tradition (if disputed by historians), Herod ordered the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. So it’s perfectly reasonable to frame the Nativity story as “a refugee family seeking safety and shelter” regardless of what authority Herod ultimately reported to.
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In all mythology, I don’t think there’s even been a story where killing some predicted one as a child ever worked. Mass murder, exposing the baby on a hillside with his feet stapled, eating it, whatever.
“And so they found the child, killed it, and all the important people lived happily ever after.” <= this never happens.
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You’d think Voldemort would have been well-read enough to know better, right?
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Zoroaster thinks your list is both good and evil … but secretly Zoroaster wants on list.
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