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Now, the Story is about a Middle Eastern refugee family. Sheesh.
It's bad enough when the secular left tries to hijack Jesus for its causes; it's downright shameful when a church does so, betraying its ignorance of the Book upon which its faith supposedly rests.
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For the record, Jesus' family fled to Egypt during a period when the government was seeking to murder Him -- but He was almost certainly a year (or more) old by then, when the family was living comfortably in a house (Matt 2:11) in Bethlehem. At no point during the birth narrative was the family fleeing anything.
You can read it yourself, if you like. That'll give you a leg up on the church pictured here.