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This Christmas, Baby Jesus Is Being Raped In A U.S. Concentration Camp

Matthew 2:13-23

13 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14 Then Joseph[a] got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.”

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Mathew 25:31-33;41-46

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. 

41 Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Let’s Be Clear

This Christmas, Jesus is being raped in a United States concentration camp. His parents came to the Untied States’ southern border, seeking asylum as protected by US and international law. They were captured, their child taken from them, and they were locked in cages in separate concentration camps. Presently in that concentration camp, held in cages with 15,000 other children taken from their parents, Jesus is being sexually abused by concentration camp staff. Mary and Joseph, panicked and sobbing and despairing of ever seeing their child again, are locked in cages a thousand miles away. There is no plan to release them, and there is no plan to reunite them with their traumatized son. He was taken as a baby, and does not speak English, and there are no careful records being kept, so it is unlikely he will ever see his parents again.

This. Is. Who. We. Are. Now.

If you take the Bible seriously, then this is the conclusion you must come to. Why? For the first reason, which is that the Holy Family fled to Egypt seeking asylum when their lives were in danger, and for the second reason, which is that Jesus says very clearly that how we treat the least among us is how we treat him. There are complex interpretive challenges when reading the Bible, but this is not one of them. This one is simple.

As I write this, filled with rage and disgust that has grown beyond words, I find that I have nothing else to say.

Merry Christmas.

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13 thoughts on “This Christmas, Baby Jesus Is Being Raped In A U.S. Concentration Camp”

  2. If any border guards have done this I hope they are punished in the most severe ways, but at the same time what sort of parent would force their way into a foreign country to which they have no particular right to enter and risk their children being put into the hands of these pedos?

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    • A parent like Mary and Joseph.

      I strongly encourage you to learn the stories of people who come here seeking asylum.

      Also, I cannot empasize this enough: entering the United States seeking asylum is a legal right according to international law, treaties the US has signed, and United States law.

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      • I am familiar with many such stories.

        They don’t change the fact that at some point countries have to control their borders.

        If America lets in this convoy, it will have to let in every convoy and in a short while it will almost certainly enter societal collapse.

        The way to help Latin Americans outside the USA is sustainable development, not by letting them sink the lifeboat.

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          • They never got separated until they illegally crossed the border.

            Go get an American family take them to the mall, get them all breaking different laws and see how quickly the children get separated from the parents after they get arrested.

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          • ‘If you think that controlling our borders justifies separating families and putting them in concentration camps, you and I are not going to agree here at all.’

            I certainly don’t think that though, nor did I say it.

            What you could really do with is a wall to stop these illegal incursions from occurring in the first place and remove the need for any arrests.

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  3. ‘Also, I cannot empasize this enough: entering the United States seeking asylum is a legal right according to international law, treaties the US has signed, and United States law.’

    I can understand your feelings but South and Central America are not so bad in the main, so what are they legitimately fleeing? A sombrero allergy?

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  4. Please, please do some research. It is clear you don’t understand the situation. Let’s assume that if people flee a thousand miles, knowing they might be murdered or die of thirst or be put in a concentration camp, they have a compelling reason.

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  5. This is the last one, I think, before bed. I’m not sure we’re communicating here.

    They entered the country legally, seeking asylum. The caravan of people are all asylum-seekers with a legal right to enter the country.

    Even if they entered the country illegally, that is a misdemeanor. Have you ever exceeded the speed limit? Jay-walked? Then according to your reasoning, you deserve to have your family forcibly split up and put into concentration camps.

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