"In the Pink" about spinning Christian holiday legends

  In The Pink Texas finds the true meaning of Christmas badly misspins the story behind the Lukan nativity myth to present an interesting, and politically supportable story about the Trump administration and religions right wingnuts, and an interesting sidebar, with no follow-up, about American Catholic political issues.

I am referring in specific to the second half of the piece.

First, of course, it never happened.

Second, within the story, Jesus and Mary weren't refugees; they were following a lawful political order. (This didn't happen this way in actual Roman censuses, so even if the broader outlines of the story were true, this is not.) 

I should add that this is far from the first time I've seen this claim, so let's look at the appropriate verses from Luke 2 (vv 1-3):

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to their own towns to be registered.

See? Not refugees. 

Third, it (natch) goes on to blend Matthew's story (which also, of course, didn't happen) with Luke's. 

And, they're not refugees in Matthew, either, because Mary and Joseph are living in Bethlehem the whole time up to this point. Now, AFTER Jesus' birth, they have to flee Herod in Matthew's story, and so are refugees — fleeing from a Roman client kingdom into direct Roman control. The best modern analogy would be fleeing Puerto Rico for the United States itself. (Of course, the Matthean birth narrative didn't happen either.) 

As for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops condemnation of ICE earlier this year? 

Yes, that happened. But, it didn't invoke the Lukan nativity.

It also ruled on a bunch of other things that librulz and leftists don't like, and that also illustrated issues of religious-political matters in US Catholicism. More on that here.

The big issue for this secularist is that he doesn't like misappropriation of religious traditions for political reasons at all.

And of course I commented there.