EDINBURGH, Scotland, December 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — This Christmas will be the strangest ever for millions of Christians across the western world. We are going to have to check the headlines to see what our governments want us to do, and then we are going to do what we believe God is calling us to do: at least, I hope so. We’re just going to do it while looking over our shoulder, and that’s an uncomfortable thought.
But it occurred to me that the first Christmas was also uncomfortable, and the discomfort was also caused by government fiat. We read in the Gospel of Luke that a “decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.” For this reason, Joseph and his betrothed Mary went from Nazareth to Bethlehem, Joseph’s ancestral town, 90 miles away. They had to go uphill and downhill, and put up with rainy days and cold nights, and bump along on donkeys when they were too tired to walk. Perhaps they joined a caravan of other travellers for protection against wild animals and brigands.
Then, of course, when Mary and Joseph got to Bethlehem, there was no room in an inn, and
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