‘Christ in the Rubble’ Nativities Spark Outrage
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Nativity displays featuring the baby Jesus wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf are popping up around the world. While the Pope has endorsed these “Christ in the Rubble” displays, many Christian leaders feel they serve only to deceive and erase Christ’s Jewishness.
From The New York Post. Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh.
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In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional swaddling blanket with the black-and-white scarf — which has become a symbol of pro-Palestine activism. The manger used as a crib, meanwhile, is being surrounded by piles of rubble. …
So-called “Christ in the Rubble” displays have become so popular that they’ve popped up everywhere from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, to All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, to the Vatican.
According to the Palestinian pastor who started the trend, the scenes are meant to send the message that, if Jesus were born in the same spot today, it would be in war-torn Palestine. …
Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.
“Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical exploitation of the manger scene for political and propagandistic purposes, but it is also an absurd rewriting of history,” Dr. André Villeneuve, a professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, told The Post. “Everyone knows that Jesus was a Jew, a son of Israel. If he had been born in our generation, he would pray in a synagogue—not in a church or mosque.” …
The photo op was especially fraught after the Pope suggested in November that Israel may be committing a genocide in Gaza. …
Christ in the Rubble nativities have popped up around the world after a Palestinian pastor, Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, invented the new take on the nativity scene last Christmas season.
“This is what Christmas looks like in Palestine,” Munther Isaac told Middle East Eye last December. “If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza … To us, this is a message that Jesus identifies with our suffering.”
Isaac is the author of a forthcoming book, entitled “Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza,” which, according to the publisher’s description, makes the case that Palestinians suffer “segregation worse than South Africa’s apartheid regime.”
His message is now being echoed by Christians erecting copycat displays across the world …
Still, many Christians and advocates of Israel say the displays are forcing modern politics into ancient tradition and perpetrating a false narrative.
“This is politics masquerading as history,” Boston University biblical scholar Paula Frederiksen told The Post. “The visual image signals a narrative: Palestinians are victims of Jewish aggression. …
What do you think of the “Christ in the Rubble” displays? Share your thoughts and prayers below.
(Excerpt from The New York Post. Photo Credit: Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
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Christmas history: pagans and Bible – truth … Please look this up and watch! May the Blessings of GOD and HIS Peace guide you! I am quitting Christmas cold turkey. I am facing withdrawal symptoms, but I am going to be fine as i follow Scripture without man made pagan holidays such as Easter and Christmas! Grateful I found out at 74 years old while I am still on this earth!
I will be brief. There is NOTHING in Scripture that discusses Christmas as it is celebrated! I am a born-again Christian and I am no longer involving myself in the pagan holiday called Christmas. Folks, do your own research on the origin of this pagan holiday. I am going through withdrawal myself as I let go of this pagan day/season! We cannot Christianize this pagan holiday! GOD is not in this celebration! We do not know when CHRIST was born because Scripture does not tell us! This holiday originated before CHRIST’ birth honoring the ancient demon gods! I’m 74 years old and it is very difficult for me to let go of this holiday, however I am determined to live according to Scripture to the best of my ability! Peace and Love to you all in JESUS NAME! Amen!
It sounds like a pig is being sacrificed on the HOLY altar. ( let the reader understand). A modern day Daniel 9:27 abomination of Desolation.
It’s the story of 🕎 Hanukkah! The Greeks slaughtered a pig on the Holy altar and the Maccabees rose up!! Hanukkah and Christmas fall on the SAME DAY this year. We need to WAKE UP ⏰ and hear what time it is. It is not NOEL ( which means No God) it is YHVH , The Great I AM time. Turn back to our ROOTS. The Pilgrims left the Anglican church, sacrificed everything, and started this great Judeo Christian country just for this very reason!! Our Judeo 🔯✝️ Christian roots. Hanukkah is about fighting against the anti God culture invading and trying to dominate us. The Church MUST Repent and Turn from her Roman rooted ways. In the book of “ROMANS” ( hint : Catholic Church) Chapters 9-11 is v
ery clear the church is rooted in the Jewish Olive Root. To the Jew 1st. This is God’s Order! The Church will be cut off if it doesn’t accept God’s order and the veil will now cover HER eyes! 2nd Corinthians 3:15 says , ” even today when Moses is read a veil covers
their hearts. ” This is now happening to the Church because they have been haughty, divorced themselves from the Jewish Root at the Nicaea Council by Constantine, and can NOT see. 🙁
Please HEAR what the Spirit of God is saying before God’s judgement begins 🙏
I agree with the statement that this is politisising the Creshe to make a non Christian point!! Where is a Biblical basis for this? First off, no where in the Scriptures is it stated we should celebrate “Christmas” to start with! I am convinced it is a man made holiday! Any day we celebrate Jesus is acceptable but to totally rewrite the Scriptures to make a point that is inaccurate and self serving borders on blasphemy to me! As far as I am concerned the main reason the secular culture allows and promotes this is basically to make money! Whatever else goes along with it they will tolerate! I ask God to forgive them and show them this certainly is wrong!!!
We need to obey the word in get away from paganism, period. The Most High, says in his word do not add or take away,why would celebrating, the Birth of Yeshua Hamashiachs, on Christmas, when we know the truth of how and what really took place at that time. Must must renounce all the idolatry, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter…Stay with Feast which God appointed.
Shameful I SAY
Who is at fault for Palestinians
in rubble?
I SAY HAMAS HEZBULLAH HOUTHI SHIA IRAN
SO CALLED CHRISTIANS
& MUSLIMS WHO LIE ABOUT HISTORY TRUTH ETC…
Yeshua HaMashiach is not a Palestinian. There has NEVER BEEN A PALESTINIAN COUNTRY
PRIOR TO ARAFAT in 1960’s
Abraham was NOT a Muslim
Or King Solomon… They NEVER built the Al’Aqsa Mosque
If only this imagery of Jeshua wrapped in a Muslim scarf was meant to echo Christ’s own declaration that “Whosoever believes in me shall have eternal life.” Christ came to redeem the World. He was not a Christian. He was born a Jew. Lived and worshipped as a Jew. And He came to do the will of our creator, God, His Father. It wasn’t a Jewish thing. It was a “whosoever will” thing. If the purpose of wrapping Jesus in a Muslim scarf, and placing Him in the rubble is to change these truths, or further the hatred between Jews & Muslims, I weep for those perpetrating it’s spread. God’s will, will be done on earth as it is in heaven. None on earth, not even the highest of religious leaders, can change it.