Today is Christmas Day, the day Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus who is called the Christ. It is a happy occasion in part because Christians, like most people around the world, generally tend to celebrate births. However, at the time the birth was happening it was not all happy. I am not only talking about Mary's birth pangs but the fact that she gave birth in a homeless shelter, in fact, in far less than a homeless shelter - in a place where animals live. That is how Luke 2 tells the story. How this child, born in such an ignominious condition, evolved one of the days in which people make billions of dollars around the world even as they still shove aside the homeless, is a strange tale to tell. But that is the reality - that we celebrate a homeless man without a tinge of irony in what we do. Should Christmas not rather make us to be ashamed of how we treat the wretched of the earth?
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