this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
535 points (100.0% liked)
People Mastodon
234 readers
590 users here now
People tooting stuff. We allow toots from anyone and are platform agnostic (Mastodon, BlueSky, Twitter, Tumblr, FaceBook, Whatever)
founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Depends which gospel you reference. In Matthew, Jesus' family flees to Egypt to escape attempts by the King of Judea (Herod) to have him killed. Luke makes no mention of it, and John and Mark don't cover Jesus' childhood. Most scholars do not support the historicity of the gospel's accounts of Jesus childhood. As an adult, he's more of an itinerant preacher than a refugee, and the gospels don't document any attempts to flee once he's in trouble with the law.
According to the self beliefs of Christianity he would fully qualify as a refugee in today’s use of the word and the current interpretation of the belief system.
Trying to use historical records to interpret myths and legends is an interesting exercise, but won’t add much to the general conversation.
Sorry, I posted early, re-read, thought it was stupid, deleted, then saw you'd replied to me
It’s hard to know how other people will interpret what is posted online.
You are ok.
I appreciate you
It absolutely was not meant as one. I apologize to the poster above if it looks like that.
It seemed more like a neurodivergent lemmy comment. I tried to make a clear but direct response.
Is there a way that it could have been less misinterpreted?
It's a fairy tale in which the protagonist is a de facto refugee. What are you talking about?