Census Year Zero
As you know, “B.C.” stands for “Before Christ.” “A.D.” translates to “After Divinity.” This is the year 2019 AD. The 2020 Census is upon us. It is time to count heads again to see where the tax dollars go and who to control.
This year, in fact right now, the Supreme Court is being pushed by the liberals to make non citizens and foreign criminals legitimate for the 2020 Census for the sake of a political agenda. ( A wrinkle in the fabric of the tax dollar and population control scheme of things.)
The liberal appendage of our government, which has metastasized into something grotesque somewhere below the belt line of humanity, has morphed into something even more hideous than anything I ever could have imagined as a young man. I am sorry to say that I was ever a part of the Democratic Party. I have taken many showers since then. It's hard to say if it ever washes away.
In the old days at ground zero of Census Zero, before A.D. was invented, because Christ had not died on the cross yet, the people were required to visit their home land in order to be counted in the Census. If you did not comply you could be punished.
You could die. Execution was a solution. Things were simpler back then. Don't you miss the good old days? The people back in the day did not have mass transit. They also did not have Mass; again, because God did not die yet. Mass services came later. Mass transit came much later. Getting around on foot was common.
People had to hop on their favorite pony or mule or slip on their favorite sandals for the trip. (I'm being sarcastic. They probably only owned one pair of sandals and most likely had no mule to borrow.)
March, 8 B.C. Joseph and Mary were married. At that same time Caesar Augustus decreed that all inhabitants of the Roman Empire had to return to their ancestral land for a head count. Imagine Hondurans and Nicaraguans having to walk back home from California every 10 years for a census in their city and country of origin these days.
Mary, (mother of Jesus) was a first-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth. She and her husband Joseph were required by law to take a long walk to be counted in their census. Joseph, husband of Mary and step dad to Jesus was a descendant of David (Matt. 1.1-16; Luke 3:23-38) and lived in Nazareth.
Is this going to turn into another immigration story? I pray not. Little known fact: Mary was born in Ephesus, Turkey, (in a nature park between Ephesus and Seljuk to be precise.)
The law of the land at that time was for the male spouse, (head of the family to go to his own home town to be counted. Imagine if they had to walk to Turkey. Did you need passports or immigration papers to go from country to country?
Mary was a virgin. I just had to insert that information here for fun. That is a story for another day but I wonder how that fact affects the calculus of a census.
The distance from Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem in Judea was approximately 70 miles. (It still is 70 miles today. Geography and Earth haven't changed much in 2,000 years.) People would have traveled 20 miles per day on foot and by donkey. (mule if you prefer.) It would have taken them 4 days to make a one way trip.
According to the historical record, the baby Jesus was the last name entered on the census registry in Bethlehem. King Herod used that confidential state document to hunt down Jesus. He gave a copy of the census to his army so they could find and kill Him. All the babies on that Census list were murdered. Jesus was not. He was lucky that way. Being God has its perks.
Historical fact: Herod killed his own family members so he had no trouble killing other families for sport.
The census today serves exactly the same purposes as it did back on day one of Census Year Zero; Identify tax payers and control the masses, (population, if your prefer that term.)
You can count on a good census from your government. It is definitely counting on you, citizens and non-citizens alike.
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