Born in a Manger

Some thoughts about Christmas, nativity scenes, and Rubbermaid horse troughs.

http://twitter.com/joefelice

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Education

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• christmas
• baby
• jesus
• nativity
• manger
• home
• birth
• joe
• felice

[TheAppieShow]

I posted it to FB the day you posted it two years ago...I am posting it, again. You did amazing with this. You matter, JoeFelice. And, I miss your videos.

[JoeFelice]

@TheAppieShow Thank you. I have a little footage in the can that I'll publish soon. Just a small comedy thing.

[eccentricfather]

Watched this last year and it moved me. Came back because this Christmas is really getting me down and I really needed something to kick me in the teeth. It moved me even more this year. Thank you for posting this.

[JoeFelice]

@eccentricfather Thank you for letting me know, that's great to read.

[patnchrisnmary]

Wow! This is amazing. I am just astonished by this video. I am not religious, but I DO respect Jesus and his teachings.

Favoriting!

[JoeFelice]

Thanks very much, Pat, Chris, or Mary!

[greendracobob]

Very good.

I believe it was C.S. Lewis said once that you have three options for an opinion of Jesus. That he was who he said he was (God), and therefore someone worth listening to and worthy of worship; or that he was crazy; or that he was lying. The last two meaning he wasn't worth anything.

I see why people today can think of him as a Roman-era Ghandi, that he was a great teacher and great example of a human being. But he did also make some heavy duty claims about being God.

[empacae]

Loved the video Joe. How true. It was never the miracles of Jesus that ever grabbed me, but how humbly he lived his life that was truelly amazing to me.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - -- Mahatma Gandhi

[PktMma]

Lol at the trollface pope. I'm sure if he'd seen Jesus at the time the pope would have molested him.

[eccentricfather]

Year 3 now that I've come back to this video. Still struggling with the season and still finding your video helpful. Thanks again.

[Spectersbeast]

That was very interesting. I'm an atheist, but I do genuinely respect religion and find Jesus quite fascinating. I had never thought about this before.

Honestly I feel very inspired.

[Shawnruss]

The story of Jesus's birth can be very inspirational, just like the numerous works of fiction available to people regarding hardships and poverty.

Unfortunately, people tend to think Jesus is the 'most important person in the world.'

Either it's gullibility, conditioning, brainwashing, the fear of the unknown, the WANT for there to be 'something', or just plain old saturation;

I hope someone speaks the truth to me when I start worshiping Luke Skywalker or Kilgore Trout.

[JohannesenBergur]

Thanks, really. I randomly viewed this video and it's beautiful. I am religious and have always been captured by the humility and poverty of Jesus, which I can see you are too.

Martin Luther said that if a man could imagine Heaven he'd die from happiness, if he could imagine Hell, he'd die from fear. My favorite Christmas song involves Jesus' coming down from heaven, which I see in Luther's perspective.

Again, thanks.

[saikoza1]

Will be using this in my sermon tomorrow - it is such an important message.

(I hope I don't crush too many people's romantic view of Jesus' birth).