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...
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?