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This year, statues of tall men clad in all black with masks drawn up to hide their faces are disrupting the serenity of a Charlotte church's Nativity scene. The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.

cnn.comAs anti-ICE Nativity scenes spark outrage, faith leaders grapple with politics at the pulpit | CNNAs Nativity scenes depicting ICE draw attention and outrage, faith leaders are grappling with politics in religion and urging a closer reading of the Christmas story.

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I also have seen empty mangers... That's not what should drive outrage. There is nothing Christian about outrage at Christians denouncing what is after all proscribed in the Bible. That's what happens when Christians forget they were persecuted by the Emperor but are now the Empire.

Right wing outrage is always against criticism, never about the activities necessitating the criticism. ICE = brownshirts. MAGA = NAZI party, complete with concentration camps and more.

CNN placed this story behind a paywall, so we will never know the snowflakes that were outraged by the updated nativity scene. I am no bible freak, but I remember Matthew 2, where Herod coerces the three wise men to provide information about Jesus' whereabouts.

Makes a statement but its a really bad analogy. The nativity scene was in Bethlehem which was Israeli territory and the family were Jewish and indigenous to the land, their homeland. I get the point but its easier to use truth instead of making things up. ICE is committing crimes against humanity.