• riplin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The animals that used to eat out of it probably thought “what the hell kind of trough is this.”

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    1 year ago

    yeah that’s stupid catholicism in a nut shell (or in a crib) the WHOLE POINT of the christmas story is the earthly, poor origins and the manger is a symbol for the birth of something heavenly in a BARN with the common people and the animals…

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      1 year ago

      I thought the point was that being born in a barn (or cave or whatever) and placed in a manger was to show that the Jews rejected him, and then the wise men come from the east shows that he would be worshipped by gentiles…

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        1 year ago

        it’s not the jews rejecting. it’s about the king’s rule and laws that make it necessary for the birth to be “on the road”