1 Sentence: Jesus, Too, Was
Jesus, too, was a dark-skinned child refugee.
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Ron Powell
07/02/2019 @ 11:08 pm
Yes, indeed, he was….
07/08/2019 @ 10:25 am
Actually Jesus was never a refugee because there is no evidence that he ever set foot in Egypt….or anywhere else for the matter.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/08/2019 @ 10:29 am
Alan…can you take the photo of me I sent you and size it so it will take, here? Thanks. JW
koshersalaami
07/08/2019 @ 10:31 am
I wondered about that. Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem on pilgrimage.
07/08/2019 @ 1:55 pm
I didn’t play along. How about this:
Jesus, too, was a member of a maligned minority.
07/08/2019 @ 1:55 pm
And please don’t start a headline with a numeral.
Jonna Connelly
07/10/2019 @ 8:09 pm
Mary & Joseph were on pilgrimage to Bethlehem but tradition has it that they went on to Egypt in response to Herod’s efforts to kill Jesus. It could be apocryphal, of course, but it is tradition and puts Jesus in the position of the people fleeing Central America now to save their children.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/10/2019 @ 8:13 pm
Yes. The import here is not abt historicity. It’s abt the power of what people and cultures come to take as true, and the attendant symbolism.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/26/2019 @ 6:54 pm
…and the Power, Jonna, is in Story, yes.
07/26/2019 @ 5:38 pm
Jesus, too, was mortal.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/26/2019 @ 6:52 pm
Seems to have been.
07/26/2019 @ 7:02 pm
If he wasn’t, the whole story would have no value for mortals.
Jonathan Wolfman
07/26/2019 @ 7:15 pm
🙂