Augustus
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I can just use UN standards.
You could. It would be incredibly vapid to apply them to 1st C mythological narratives, but that's your prerogative and you seem to want to enjoy it.
Except when applied to the modern system the Biblical view would be rejected due to lack of evidence and application of modern standards.
Seeing as the analogy is based on the assumption that people believe in the narrative, it assumes that the massacre of the innocents actually happened. You do understand the relationship between the Bible and Christianity don't you?
Regardless, it is a reference to a well known narrative, which is a common part of human communication that doesn't necessarily require the narrative to be true. If someone pointed out that the tale of Icarus cautioned against hubris, you seem like the sort who would miss the point and argue that this is nonsense as it is impossible to construct your own functioning wings out of feathers and wax, so the narrative is illogical.
Wrong as the claim is being used to make a comparison and force a moral outcome targeted at those that hold Jesus in a positive light namely Christians. Christians that also hold a negative view regarding modern refugees and immigration. The goal is to create a disconnect between values and different treatment thus merely point a moral finger at people
The fact you are oblivious to this or just ignore it is amusing.
It's very simple, her point: "If you believe in the Biblical narrative then Jesus was a refugee fleeing from persecution. Some people today are fleeing from persecution. As such you should try to empathise with these people, especially at this time of year." The coherence of this has nothing to do with the UNHCR or the post-Westphalian system, simply that some people are forced to leave their homes to avoid danger.
If your response to this is "OMG, lulz. Jesus wasn't a refugee because modern international law didn't exist in the 1st C and the word refugee only exists in the context of modern international law' I'll leave it up to others to decide whose view is 'amusing'.
If you want to find a problem with the analogy, it is that most modern immigrants are not refugees. I'll leave it to Christians to establish what the Christian position should be on this.
If your complaint is that Jesus wasn't a refugee because he wouldn't meet the modern UN legal criteria based around an international system, political entities, concepts of citizenship, territorial integrity, human rights and international law that didn't exist then, that's inane.
You means ones that can not figure out the difference between a province and a nation? Its like fleeing to Texas from Cali
More ones who can't figure out that the 1st C world was significantly different to the modern system of sovereign nation states operating under modern international law in the modern world with modern communications and transportation technologies.
Anyway, if you want to die on the hill that people in the ancient world could only be described as refugees when they met the modern legalistic criteria based on 21st C international law that relies on numerous concepts that didn't exist and ignored the realities of life in the ancient world, I'll leave you to it.
Perhaps we can start retroactively applying other laws to the past and criticise Alexander the Great for not obeying the Geneva Convention; Ghengis Khan for not obeying workplace health and safety laws when he burned down cities; or the Spartan military for not employing equal opportunity policies with regard to the disabled.
Like most people, you'd probably find this quite stupid though. Yet...