The Claremont United Methodist Church in California is using the birth of Jesus this year to showcase its climate change agenda.
The installation features a mural depicting the Holy Family standing in front of a scene with smoke spewing from industrial rigging and pollution in the background, reported the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Tuesday.
The scene also features the phrase, “Creation in peril.”
According to the report, the church’s Associate Pastor Martha Morales said the Creative Peacemaking Committee made the decision this year to focus the Christmas scene on concern for the environment after previous efforts to feature immigration as a focal point.
Morales explained, describing the Holy Family as “marginalized”:
This idea for the Nativity scene was born out of wanting it to be a prophetic message about our faith and how we act and live it out in the world. Christmas is not just the story of the birth of Jesus. This is not just a time when we feel all calm and peaceful and give each other nice presents. The story of Christmas is a deep and challenging story of a marginalized family that fled their home to go to Egypt. We tend to ignore the really challenging parts of the Christmas story.
Each Christmas, the church uses its Nativity scene to signal its views on various social justice issues, including Black Lives Matter last year, and, in 2019, depicting the Holy Family as caged illegal migrants.
Morales, however, said the goal of the church’s display is not political, but educational.
“Our hope is that it will be a prophetic message,” she said, the Daily Bulletin noted. “The purpose is to remind everyone that if we’re not responding to our neighbors with justice and mercy, then we’re not responding to the call of Christmas.”
The church’s website features a “reconciling statement” that says:
As faithful disciples of Jesus and his teachings, we advocate for the full inclusion and acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and their families in the church and community.
As a congregation, we commit to welcoming and being led by clergy of any gender or orientation. We offer all the pastoral and congregational care of our church to all people.
“This includes continuing to offer the sacraments of baptism and holy communion; and this explicitly includes our sacred rituals, including marriage by our clergy and in our church building,” the statement reads.
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Now its even the Churches are into this whole Global Warming/Climate Change scam and there were No Factories back then someone needs to remind them that
Or power stations or airplanes or mass deforestation but what has that got to do with anything?
Dear Santa,
When I was young they said that Santa Claus brought lumps of coal for the bad girls and boys. When it comes to climate change I have been a very bad boy. I drive everywhere I go in older cars that don’t get good mileage. My brightly lit house is heated to the upper seventies. I eat a lot of meat and give the dog meat. My basement has five brightly lit areas for plants that have been brought in for the winter. Since I have been such a bad boy, please bring me lots of coal this Christmas.
God told Mary and Joseph to take Jesus and flee into Egypt to prevent Herod from killing him. Not marginalized but escaping an insane despot.
And that Fake Pope compared Trump to King Herod proven the Pope is as authentic as a 3 Dollar Bill
I would make more sense to use their church
to sell beer and cigars.
When ambitious Californians feel marginalized, they flee east to the heartlands. Eventually, the Martha’s of Claremont will have the place to themselves, with the rats.
The world is moving on from the half-dozen climate denying Bozos still left on this site
And they howl at the moon like crazed animals
If the world IS warming, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Stop pretending that you can.
Just to set the record straight, action on climate change polls just about dead last, virtually every time. Only a crazy fringe element wants to spend money on a nonissue, and thinks they are in the majority.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/02/11/pew-research-2019-survey-climate-change-still-ranks-as-low-priority-17th-place-out-of-18th/