Jesus was from Morocco!

Jesus was from Morocco.

Did you know that?

I didn’t know that but apparently it’s all true….That is according to Booga.

We were having dinner (and dinner seems to be the time that all Booga’s latest epiphanies are voiced) and he looked up at The Lord’s Supper copy I have framed in the dining room and explained to me that all his vast research indicated that Jesus was from Morocco.

You can imagine my astonishment at this revelation as I have always been told that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judea.

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Jesus' childhood home is identified as the town of Nazareth in Galilee. Except for Matthew's "flight into Egypt", and a short trip to Tyre and Sidon (in what is now Lebanon), the Gospels place all other events in Jesus' life in ancient Israel.^[57]

Nothing in there says “Morocco”.

I checked on the WELS website and it has a page that actually says, “Grew up in Nazareth”.

I checked it and there is no mention of Morocco….

Ahua.

So I asked Booga if he saw this in a movie.

Yes, it was filmed apparently in MOROCCO.

Ross [reporting]: The Nativity Story was filmed in Italy and Morocco. Catherine used her expertise to make sure the Biblical accounts were realistically portrayed.

Ah, well now that makes sense.

I had to explain that to Booga.

Who was confused because it said in the movie credits that they had filmed in Morocco.

Because why would they film anywhere other than the place where Jesus grew up?

Well, I didn’t try to explain to Booga that Israel and most of the middle-east is kind of volatile. He wouldn’t understand. However I did correct him.

I told him, the movie was filmed in Morocco, and it didn’t mean Jesus was from there.

A lot of people think that they know what being a Christian is and they know who Christ is, and they only get what certain people have told them. Sort of a third party influence.

It’s kind of like believing that you read the book by watching the movie version.

According to my brother, who reads a lot of Sinclair Lewis (his favorite writer….right now – that could change in a matter of months…For a while it was Mark Twain) was not always the devout Christian that we remember him as…Actually; it was a very very Catholic J.R.R. Tolkien that who convinced him to give PEACE a chance a long with some other friends in his circle.

Lewis had started out with a lot of pagan beliefs.

These facts are according to my brother. I don’t know if they are actually true.

I’m not the authority. I don’t know a lot about C.S. Lewis; although I do know that Tolkien and Lewis were very good friends and that Lewis did struggle with his Christianity.

This illustrates that sometimes people think they know things and find out that those things are different than what they thought they were. I mean how many people read C.S. Lewis and thought he was an undoubting, devoted Christian all his life?

Yea, you just don’t know unless you know- do you?

So maybe it’s good that Booga makes me explain mistakes sometimes, maybe it’s good that someone made me explain that Jesus was not from Morocco.

Booga needs not to believe everything he sees in the movies.

We all need to re-evaluate what people tell us from time to time and be assured of our beliefs. That’s why we need to sit in church for an hour every week, even though some of us-including myself- make it twice a month or worse sometimes-once a month….

I admire those who find themselves at worship services once a week-unfailingly.

Booga needs to find another hobby.

And I think I need my neurons to cool down for a bit.