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*On December 25  tweeted a Christmas greeting  "celebrating the arrival of divinity on earth, who came into this world not in riches but in poverty, not as a citizen but as a refugee."   

*On December 25  tweeted a Christmas greeting  "celebrating the arrival of divinity on earth, who came into this world not in riches but in poverty, not as a citizen but as a refugee."   

This is not the first time liberals have sought to misappropriate the authority of Scripture with this analogy, and which is criticized on factual grounds since  Christ certainly did not come to earth as a refugee fleeing Heaven, thus not being born a refugee,  while Joseph and Mary were legal tax-paying citizens of Rome. In addition, there is  no reason to think that Joseph was particularly poor, and Egypt had been folded into the Roman Empire, to which Joseph fled, not due to economic reasons, but  to escape Herod who would have murdered Christ,  like as abortionists do to innocents under their local jurisdiction. Thus if anything, Joseph’s flight to Egypt was more akin to fleeing mandated abortion in California for Texas rather than fleeing Mexico to the U.S. <ref> Sam Dorman December 27, 2019. [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-backlash-refugee-jesus "Pete Buttigieg faces criticism for calling Jesus a refugee"] FOX News Network (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref><ref> Brandon Morse, October 22, 2018. [https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/10/22/no-jesus-not-refugee-illegal-immigrant/] RedState.com/Salem Media (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref> </ref><ref>Daniel1212, 12/28/19 [https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3803691/posts?page=13 ] Freerepublic.com (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref>     

This is not the first time liberals have sought to misappropriate the authority of Scripture with this analogy, and which is criticized on factual grounds since  Christ certainly did not come to earth as a refugee fleeing Heaven, thus not being born a refugee,  while Joseph was a self-employed carpenter, a legal tax-paying citizen of Rome and there is  no reason to think that he was particularly poor, nor did he flee to Egypt for economic reasons.  Instead, Joseph fled to Egypt, which had been folded into the Roman Empire,   to escape Herod who would have murdered Christ,  like as abortionists do to innocents under their local jurisdiction. Thus if anything, Joseph’s flight to Egypt would be more akin to fleeing mandated abortion in California for Texas rather than fleeing South America to the U.S. for government economic assistance, which is what Buttigieg promotes.<ref> Sam Dorman December 27, 2019. [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-backlash-refugee-jesus "Pete Buttigieg faces criticism for calling Jesus a refugee"] FOX News Network (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref><ref> Brandon Morse, October 22, 2018. [https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/10/22/no-jesus-not-refugee-illegal-immigrant/] RedState.com/Salem Media (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref> </ref><ref>Daniel1212, 12/28/19 [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3803612/posts?page=65#65] Freerepublic.com (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref>     

Meanwhile, it was under then-President Obama that only 53 Syrian Christian refugees of Syria’s civil war  were admitted into  the United States over the course of 5 years, due to American reliance on a United Nations refugee-resettlement program that disproportionately excluded them.<ref>Nina Shea, November 2, 2015. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy/ "The State Department Turns Its Back on Syrian Christians and Other Non-Muslim Refugees"] National Review (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref>

Meanwhile, it was under then-President Obama that only 53 Syrian Christian refugees of Syria’s civil war  were admitted into  the United States over the course of 5 years, due to American reliance on a United Nations refugee-resettlement program that disproportionately excluded them.<ref>Nina Shea, November 2, 2015. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy/ "The State Department Turns Its Back on Syrian Christians and Other Non-Muslim Refugees"] National Review (Retrieved  12/28/19)</ref>