And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. Luke 2:1
"Usually when we cover someone butchering the Scriptural narrative to push Marxist ideology it’s Timothy Keller. This time around it’s another New York liberal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman-elect for New York’s
congressional district has apparently picked up on cues from leftist evangelicals who insist that Jesus was an illegal immigrant and refugee despite Egypt being a part of the Roman Empire.
However, Ocasio-Cortez apparently didn’t catch that Jesus wasn’t born as a “refugee,” but was born in Bethlehem because of an intrusive registration as a part of the oppressive tax system of a centralized and overbearing government, not because of the threat from Herod. That threat would lead to Jesus’ family’s departure to Egypt until months later." P&P
"Usually when we cover someone butchering the Scriptural narrative to push Marxist ideology it’s Timothy Keller. This time around it’s another New York liberal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman-elect for New York’s
However, Ocasio-Cortez apparently didn’t catch that Jesus wasn’t born as a “refugee,” but was born in Bethlehem because of an intrusive registration as a part of the oppressive tax system of a centralized and overbearing government, not because of the threat from Herod. That threat would lead to Jesus’ family’s departure to Egypt until months later." P&P
