Koolaid_Man
12-25-2015, 11:39 AM
:lmao
As your social media contacts must have reminded you by now, Christmas truly is (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/church-compares-christmas-story-to-refugee-crisis-preaches-tolerance-1.3356375) the story of a Middle Eastern family seeking refuge. Recent forensic research suggests that (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/) Jesus looked very much like the men that so many in the predominantly Christian Western world are frightened to let into their countries. Even in photos of the refugees, there are striking echoes of biblical iconography (http://qz.com/580085/the-true-meaning-of-christmas-in-photos/).
These people are the real-life versions of the icons that Christians have come to associate with the passion of god as a human. Let us recognize them as such. Let us acknowledge, once and for all, that being a refugee—of war, poverty, or discrimination—is a sheer function of luck, and we did nothing to deserve our better fate. Whenever and wherever humanity is suffering, we are involved, and the responsibility to offer refuge is ours until the least of us have shelter.
http://qz.com/581606/remember-that-christmas-is-a-story-of-middle-eastern-refugees/
As your social media contacts must have reminded you by now, Christmas truly is (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/church-compares-christmas-story-to-refugee-crisis-preaches-tolerance-1.3356375) the story of a Middle Eastern family seeking refuge. Recent forensic research suggests that (http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a234/1282186/) Jesus looked very much like the men that so many in the predominantly Christian Western world are frightened to let into their countries. Even in photos of the refugees, there are striking echoes of biblical iconography (http://qz.com/580085/the-true-meaning-of-christmas-in-photos/).
These people are the real-life versions of the icons that Christians have come to associate with the passion of god as a human. Let us recognize them as such. Let us acknowledge, once and for all, that being a refugee—of war, poverty, or discrimination—is a sheer function of luck, and we did nothing to deserve our better fate. Whenever and wherever humanity is suffering, we are involved, and the responsibility to offer refuge is ours until the least of us have shelter.
http://qz.com/581606/remember-that-christmas-is-a-story-of-middle-eastern-refugees/