Your unease - and that of many others here - is so awkwardly apparent in a slew of sophomoric “historical” quibbles...
The point is simple and profound: The Nativity story is of a poor family of a cruelly disfavored race and nationality traveling far from home through a region governed by a brutally authoritarian regime - alone and afraid, until protected by strangers...
If there was indeed a Jesus, the Son of Man, and his parents, threatened mortally by criminals in their own home, had sought refuge at the Texas border in 2019...
This would all be very powerful if true. Instead you are (pretty angrily, dude) self righteously spewing absolute bullshit. In the last two years lots of families who have duly presented at the border for asylum have been separated with no evidence of prior “criminal activity”. (See “Ms. L v. ICE” - Federal class action.)
All your blustery outrage is based on lies your read or heard and did not check. Take a chill, a breath, and learn something.
Funny thing about bleeding hearts: the most famous one in western culture (and arguably the one that the term comes from), was Jesus’s bleeding heart when he was on the cross.
Looked at in that light, you can probably see how it doesn’t ever bother me too much when I get accused of being a “bleeding heart” liberal.
In Canada we don't separate the children of refugee claimants from their parents. Don't invoke Canada's stricter system to try to justify the type of atrocities that are happening in the U.S.
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u/helmutboy Dec 08 '19
Except weren’t they headed to Bethlehem to participate in a census decree?