In a
column
published at the conservative Human Events blog earlier this week, Chuck Norris suggested that if a government-run health care plan had existed
in Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth, the shame of Mary's
"out-of-wedlock" pregnancy would have pushed her into aborting her
child.
Norris wrote:
Lastly, as we near the eve of
another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary
had been covered by Obamacare?
What if that young, poor and uninsured
teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and
facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule,
ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her
out-of-wedlock pregnancy?
Imagine all the great souls who could have
been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents
had been as progressive as Washington's wise men and women!
Rightardia: Norris' comments are ludicrous and historians would scoff at him for being 'present minded.' The ancient world was very different than today and infant mortality in Rome at the time of Christ was about 28 per cent. There are also some phrases in the Bible that suggest a that cultic infanticide
was practiced in ancient Israel.
The strongest evidence (omitted above) lies in Ex 22:28-29. I reproduce the two verse below:
מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר
בכור בניך תתן־לי
כן תעשה לשרך לצאנך
שבעת ימים יהיה עם־אמו ביום השמיני תתנו־לי
This clause is probably a metaphorical allusion to the following:
“You shall give me your first-born son;
Such shall you do with your ox(en), (and) with your flocks:
Seven days will he be with his mother, (but) on the eighth day you shall give (him) to me.”
Did Herod actually kill babies and children in Bethlehem around the time of
Jesus' birth? There is no evidence that the 'Massacre of the Innocents' really happened. Herod was an unpopular king and was capable of this.
Wikipedia suggests the story in
Gospel of Matthew 2:16-18 may really be about Herod's the murder of his two sons. The story is not mentioned by the contemporary Jewish historian
Josephus, nor in the other gospels, nor in the early apocrypha.
source: http://rawstory.com/2009/12/norris-obamacare-killed-jesus/
source: http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~barilm/infant.html
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