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I just found it highly-entertaining that so many purported Christians were completely unaware that Jesus and his family were (briefly) political refugees in Egypt.

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Highly entertaining is a weird reaction.

Typical leftist abuse of language using Motte and Bailey logic.

Precisely define:

Immigrant
Refugee
Asylum seeker
Foreign invasion
Citizenship
Visitor
Mass migration

Does citizenship still matter in the U.S.?

Is the U.S. a nation founded on an idea and a political philosophy of liberal representative democracy versus ethnicity or tribal identification?

Does the U.S. have a robust welfare system for CITIZENS that is easily abused and overwhelmed by illegal immigrants?

Does the U.S. have a very generous policy of protection for ACTUAL asylum seekers?

Was the Holy Family legitimate asylum seekers or part of a mass migration to an overwhelmed and overly-generous welfare state?

Was Joseph a skilled laborer who survived by providing value to his new community, or was he an unskilled laborer who relied on handouts from his new (and temporary) home nation?

Would ancient tribal and ethnic nations have tolerated mass migration into their lands?

Does the United States already have by far the largest amount of legal immigration of any nation?

We’re talking about Jesus.

That’s the topic.

Even back then democrats were in favor of murdering children.

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Jesus was a clever guy.

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Actually, his name was Joshua. I've been delving into ancient language texts and it just kept getting miss translated into Jesus.

BTW, Lucifer was never the devil. It meant 'One who sees clearly.' We have a word now 'lucid.'
The name was from a biblical writer who hated another guy named Lucifer and so he used it for the devil. And it stuck.

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BTW, Lucifer was never the devil. It meant 'One who sees clearly.' We have a word now 'lucid.'

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I always felt satan was just the natural desires of man, which dog him and cause emotional and spiritual separation.

Been reading some gnostic stuff, its interesting.

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Actually, his name was Joshua. I've been delving into ancient language texts and it just kept getting miss translated into Jesus

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Or Yeshua.

Hard to know for sure, since His name was first written in Greek, which had a completely different set of sounds and written letters from Aramaic.

Greek speakers were trying to write a name comprised of some sounds not found in their language, using letters which did not correspond to those sounds.

Rather like trying to write "manana" from Spanish, in English. We don't have the "enye" sound (first "n," pronounced like a combination of "n" and "y"), and we don't have a letter to WRITE that sound.

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Actually, his name was Joshua.

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There’s no J in Hebrew. So his name wasn’t Joshua.

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Highly entertaining is a weird reaction.

Typical leftist abuse of language using Motte and Bailey logic.

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It's intellectual slap downs like this that keep me coming back to this board.

Starting to see “Jesus was a refugee” bumper stickers now. It’s nauseating.

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Starting to see “Jesus was a refugee” bumper stickers now.

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Probably covers their coexist sticker, temporarily.