SeattleBlueGullDec 28, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

I see growing anti-refugee hate & fear.

If only the Bible had a story about a mother & infant fleeing death & tyranny to desperately seek refuge in a foreign land—maybe politicians would humanize parents & kids fleeing death & tyranny to desperately seek refuge in USA.

If Only.

Anyway. Merry Christmas!

Dec 25, 2023 at 12:48amWeb
Show threadPeoriaBummerDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid They could even sing songs about it.
Show threadHugh FergusonDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid I have a feeling is this were written on pre-Musk Twitter, this post would have ended with "oh, wait"
Show threadKotesDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid Merry Christmas!
Show threadBrian WootonDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid And to you. The present church bears precious little resemblance to the Jesus we are taught about.
Show threadlupus_blackfurDec 25, 2023

@QasimRashid

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Show threadNemoDec 25, 2023

@QasimRashid

In conservative religious circles, the sad part about the accounts of Jesus's birth isn't the poverty or Mary and Joseph being refugees. It's that that could happen to, gasp, *the King!*

Show threadDavid Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his)Dec 25, 2023

@QasimRashid

Reminder that any fundamentalism relies on a *selective* reading of its sacred texts. Conservative Christians already omit any concern for the poor and a few other inconvenient parts of scripture. This'd be one more.

Show threadChocalit ManorDec 25, 2023

@benfell
Yeah, this is the so-called "cafeteria Christianity", where you pick and choose what you would like to believe. "Oh, look, God said He would rain hellfire on our enemies. I'll pick some of that. Oh, wait, I have to reflect on my own faults rather than pointing out those of others. That part I won't be getting." That's not religion, that's fantasy.
@QasimRashid

#CafeteriaChristianity

Show threadMegatronicThronBanksDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid Almost all folk myths have a version of this story. War between large groups of chimps and the refugees this generates appears timeless.
Show threadjetmakerbritDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid I agree there’s much hypocrisy by those who believe in so called Christian values. Assuming you’re referring to the nativity story. I was always told they were traveling from Nazareth to Bethlehem for a Roman census due to it being Joseph’s hometown.
Show threadDaveDec 25, 2023
@jetmakerbrit @QasimRashid He's referring to the flight to Egypt - Matthew 2:13–23.
Show threadZZ BottomDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid  ❤️ blessings be upon you and all you love and care and never quit fighting for a true democracy for all, without exceptions of any kind.
Show threadMarthaDec 25, 2023
@QasimRashid
No, they wouldn't - not this bunch of wankers running the US, the UK and the EU
Show threadCatherine BerryDec 25, 2023

@QasimRashid @HumanServitor

Unfortunately, the Bible also has a story about an oppressed people emigrating to a foreign land, then committing a horrifying genocide ordained by God.

The Bible is kind of a mixed bag when it comes to ethics.