A Creche in Cages
Dec. 9th, 2019 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithYou just know Jesus put them up to it, and a few of his followers went, "Aw, man, that's a GREAT idea!" and ran out to buy some barbed wire. There are evidently several iterations of this across various churches.
I mean, think about it. That's exactly what would happen to Him today. He was poor, brown, homeless, and born into a refugee family. So refugees, those are his people. Not the ones building cages.
I imagine some people who think they are Christians will get a very rude awakening at the Pearly Gates on account of this family separation wickedness. They like to talk about how bad it was to put the holy family in a stable and how they would do better. Well, look at how you're treating refugees, and you have your real answer. I'm a Pagan, and I'm stuffing money into every Hispanic business I visit, because I disapprove of the American Gestapo.
Don't forget good old Homeless Jesus, either.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
-- Matthew 25:40
I mean, think about it. That's exactly what would happen to Him today. He was poor, brown, homeless, and born into a refugee family. So refugees, those are his people. Not the ones building cages.
I imagine some people who think they are Christians will get a very rude awakening at the Pearly Gates on account of this family separation wickedness. They like to talk about how bad it was to put the holy family in a stable and how they would do better. Well, look at how you're treating refugees, and you have your real answer. I'm a Pagan, and I'm stuffing money into every Hispanic business I visit, because I disapprove of the American Gestapo.
Don't forget good old Homeless Jesus, either.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
-- Matthew 25:40
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Date: 2019-12-10 06:53 am (UTC)Go you!
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Date: 2019-12-10 04:30 pm (UTC)And yet somehow the people on the top of the heap keep thinking "the least of these" applies to THEM.
Well ...
Date: 2019-12-10 08:15 pm (UTC)It's the people on the bottom who remember that He came to Earth as a poor brown refugee that nobody wanted.
The key to the whole technique is that He is a powerful figure with powerless memories. The Son of God has the power to sort the good souls from the evil souls ... but that chapter points out He will do so with the judgement of the refugee.
It rather fits my premise that power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. And what it reveals is that most people are secretly assholes. There are always a few exceptions, though.
Re: Well ...
Date: 2019-12-10 11:07 pm (UTC)That's an elegant way of framing it!
>> ... but that chapter points out He will do so with the judgement of the refugee.<<
This, too.
Well, well said.
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Date: 2019-12-10 11:13 pm (UTC)I find it ironic that an interfaith Pagan scholar can spot things in Christianity that its own followers often miss. But then some things are easier to see from the outside, and studying many religions gives a great base for comparison.
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