Jesus was a Refugee and an Immigrant

Jesus also went to teach in Tyre and Sidon, which were in Roman Syria, or what we call Lebanon today.
Correct. Sorry I missed that. Jesus moved more than would have probably been legal for him to move. Then again, what threat does the law of man have against the son of God?
 
Except that both Egypt and Judea were part of the Roman Empire. So, it'd be like they fled New York to get away from the violence and went to Alabama...
Jesus wasn't from Judea. He was from Galilee which was the last vestige of the Jewish Herodian Kingdom, and during Jesus' life it functioned as an independent principality ruled by Herod Antipas, though it was definitely a vassal state subject to Roman influence.

I agree that by the time of Emperor Tiberius, all of the eastern Mediterranean were either Roman provinces, or client states of Rome.
 
Asylum seekers aren’t, either. Musk and Melania are illegal immigrants, they violated the terms of their VISAS, they should have been deported.
Yet you're perfectly chummy with all of the illegals that flooded in during "Biden's" term? You're an odd one, Phanty!

Phanty: "Never mind the illegal alien invasion that was actually happening in real time under "Biden"... ELON!!!! MELANIA!!!! MANY MANY YEARS AGO!!!! RAHHHHH!!!!!!"

:rofl2: TOO FUNNY! :rofl2:
 
It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, to get to a place where they can find shelter and give birth, and then, to escape the murderous rage of a king.

The Jesus we follow was a refugee and an immigrant.

After he was born, fearing that King Herod would murder Jesus as they returned to their homeland in Judea, Mary and Joseph fled with their child to Egypt. The story, in Matthew 2, is not often read in churches because it disrupts our ideas of the nativity. Who wants to move from a peaceful and joyful manger scene to a chaotic story of violence and fear? But this is our story, and this is the Jesus we follow: a child who survived a massacre by fleeing to a safer land

God do I like Maynard

There's a shadow just behind me
Shrouding every step I take
Making every promise empty
Pointing every finger at me
Waiting like a stalking butler
Who upon the finger rests
Murder now the path of must we
Just because the son has come

Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?
Jesus, won't you fucking whistle
Something but the past and done?

Why can't we not be sober?
Just want to start this over
And why can't we drink forever?
I just want to start this over

I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile
I will only complicate you
Trust in me and fall as well
I will find a center in you
I will chew it up and leave
I will work to elevate you
Just enough to bring you down
 
It is Advent, the days when we remember that Jesus is coming to us, the days when we imagine Mary and Joseph making a long and difficult trek—first, to get to a place where they can find shelter and give birth, and then, to escape the murderous rage of a king.

The Jesus we follow was a refugee and an immigrant.

After he was born, fearing that King Herod would murder Jesus as they returned to their homeland in Judea, Mary and Joseph fled with their child to Egypt. The story, in Matthew 2, is not often read in churches because it disrupts our ideas of the nativity. Who wants to move from a peaceful and joyful manger scene to a chaotic story of violence and fear? But this is our story, and this is the Jesus we follow: a child who survived a massacre by fleeing to a safer land

Jesus was a Refugee and an Immigrant

The above statement is a lie. His family was making a pilgrimage.
 
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