The misuse of the Christmas story and defamatory depiction of the Nativity scene in service of political ideology isn’t exactly new. This year a very Woke Church in Illinois has zip-tied baby Jesus to MakeAPoint™.
The Left has subsumed Christian churches as it has other cultural institutions and turned Christian worship and service into Leftwing political activism. Which includes cheap political theater
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Church Nativity Scene Features Zip-Tied Baby Jesus, Roman Soliders as ICE Agents https://t.co/B4moHXCKLE pic.twitter.com/uREDeF23N6
— Protestia (@Protestia) December 1, 2025
if you’re struggling to believe that some churches have seriously lost their way, look no further than Lake Street Church of Evanston.
The Illinois-based church raised all sorts of eyebrows after it decided to take their love of unchecked immigration and disdain for Trump and apply it to one of the most sacred scenes in the Bible.
According to Protestia, the church claims that “this installation reimagines the nativity as a scene of forced family separation, drawing direct parallels between the Holy Family’s refugee experience and contemporary immigration detention practices.”
“Holy Family’s refugee experience”? That, dear reader, is the clue that you are not in the presence of a real Christian church. This is deliberate lying about the Christmas story in service of anti-American ideology.
Consider, when Joseph and a very pregnant Mary traveled to Bethlehem they were not refugees. Joseph was complying with the conditions of the census called by Caesar Augustus (Luke 2:1-5). Bethlehem was in Judea, a conquered Jewish nation then part of the Roman Empire. Traveling from Nazareth (in Galilee, Roman-conquered Israel) to Bethlehem was about 90 miles and akin to traveling from Philadelphia to New York City. Different states, same nation, not refugees.
But but but … the Woke, inside and outside of fake Christian churches cry … the Holy family had to flee to Egypt because for safe haven! That makes them refugees just like Palestinians!
Um …
Oh, look at that! Egypt was just another part of the Roman Empire! Going from Judea to Egypt is like going from California to Arizona … also to seek safe haven from Newsom’s pro-criminal state, but it doesn’t make the fleeing Californians refugees.
After watching Woke Churches in 2020 & 21 put masks on the statues in Christmas Nativity scenes … including the Catholic Church …
The Nativity scene at Santa Maria in Trastevere: Mary and Joseph waiting in front of a model of the church, while those nearby are masked and showing their green passes – vaccinated or COVID negative. pic.twitter.com/SjyTGyqV8u
— Cindy Wooden (@Cindy_Wooden) December 14, 2021
… it is disappointing but not surprising that Lake Street Church would engage in defaming Christmas. They aren’t a church so much as a Woke Social Club more interested in being “non-creedal” and all manner of Leftwing ideology.
Bad enough that many want to erase Christmas from the season, it’s worse when ostensible Christians want to lie about it. That breaks the Commandment not to carry God’s name into disrepute.
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Wyldkat says: CINO
I bounced over to their site and took a look around.
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Lake Street Church Covenant (copied from their site)
We stand together in celebration of the divine that moves within, among, and around us.
As a spiritual community, we affirm our kinship with the earth and all of its people.
Our covenant with one another is rooted in the Christian tradition and the living practice of Jesus to welcome the excluded and care for the vulnerable.
We are connected by our respect for soul liberty, which challenges us to embody God in the world each in our own way.
We seek to be transformed as we awake to the hidden wholeness of life.
We promise to be mutually helpful one to the other, bearing one another’s burdens, participating in one another’s joys, and supporting the church community that nurtures us all.
We promise to make this church a womb of contemplation and action so as to clarify our vision and strengthen our resolve to act against injustice and for peace.
We promise to be stewards of the earth, sustaining it for future generations by cultivating self-discipline and gratitude.
We pray together to love justice, act kindly and walk humbly with God.
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Notice what is missing? Any mention of belief in the Bible.
They claim to be American Baptist Church that cherishes its non-creedal tradition. Funny, the ABC church where I was baptized didn’t get involved with politics (unless you count Tennessee Football) and proudly proclaimed their belief in the Bible.
smh
Wut?! You expect them to actually OPEN the Book and READ the Christmas story? My goodness…
These people are not Christians. They are followers of a new religion (socialism), only vaguely based on Christianity.
By the way, for those who have read and understood the story – note that Joseph and Mary fled to the nearest place of safety from their persecutors (who weren’t the Romans). Just as the law on refugees in modern times requires.
The equivalent for what happened under the Democrat regimes would have been for them to relocate to Rome – and demand to be put on the bread dole.
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