Over the Christmas holiday, CNN featured religion correspondent Father Edward Beck, who shared a thought-provoking take on the true story of Christmas. Beck called it “The story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew born into an occupied country, having to flee as refugees into Egypt.” CNN also tweeted another bold statement that “if Jesus were born today he would be born in Gaza under rubble.” But it seems that Bethlehem isn’t in Gaza. CNN seems to be working on its handling of Christianity. Breitbart’s John Hayward had some thoughts on this, taking on all of these hot takes about Jesus being a Palestinian refugee.
If you can wheedle, trick, or coerce people into showing the smallest bit of respect for something they KNOW isn’t true, you’ve broken them. You’ve opened a crack in the armor of reason, common sense, tradition, and community that can be exploited to inflict deep societal wounds. The tweet can be found here.
He went on to highlight that this idea of Jesus being a “Palestinian” or a “refugee” is not mere ignorance. It is intellectual colonization. Political actors hollow out religions, traditions, and scientific disciplines and then wear their authority like the skin of a vanquished beast. Read the full thread here.
