"...The incoming congresswoman tweeted: "Joy to the World! Merry Christmas everyone — here's to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love for all people. (Including refugee babies in mangers + their parents.)"
Let's put aside that Ocasio-Cortez is conflating the Nativity story described in Luke's Gospel, in which Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to register for the Roman census, with Matthew's description of the couple's fleeing to Egypt to protect Jesus from King Herod's decree to murder every boy age 2 or younger in Bethlehem.The latter example also fails because there was no illegal border crossing into Egypt, as it, too, was part of the Roman Empire and, in any event, because Mary and Joseph were following God's command for them to flee to protect Jesus; a divine order trumps all man-made laws.
Let's also defer until a later time the bizarre scolding about refugee babies from one whose party virtually supports abortion on demand.
Ocasio-Cortez's biblical illiteracy is irrelevant.
The point is that she is carrying on an unfortunate practice of cherry-picking Scripture for political gain.
She's simply trying to show that conservatives have no compassion for "foreigners" or the lost and that they are egregious hypocrites and frauds for holding themselves out as Christians while declining to model Jesus' love.
In a less imperfect world, I wouldn't have to bother refuting this, but Democrats have done a masterful job permeating our culture with these slanders, and far too many people actually believe them — just as they believe their equally wicked mantra that we are hateful racists, sexists and homophobes..."
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