Fallen Into Knowledge

Article Here.

Currently they are making $165,200 per year. So, certainly a raise is long over-due, right?
Meanwhile, national minimum wage has stayed at $5.15 per hour for 10 years. That works out to $9,888 a year for a full time near-slave.

Another Advent Reading, this time from Mary’s Song (Luke 1:46-55):

His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly;
He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.

For Sunday’s reading:
I notice this from Luke 2:3
“And everyone went to HIS own town to register.”  NIV
“And everyone was on HIS way to register for the census, each to HIS own city.” NASB

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WOMEN?!  At least one is recorded as making the journey, does Mary not quite count?

This is, partly an issue with English, I understand.  We don’t have a way of doing first person singular (he/she/it) that is gender neutral.  Nonetheless the days of claiming that “he” “him” and/or “man” counts as a gender neutral category too are long over.

This sort of thing really irks me.

Luke 2:1-7 (NRSV, Anglicized Version):

“In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered.  This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.  All went to their own towns to be registered.  Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David.

He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child.  While they were there, the time came for her deliver her child.  And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”

Hallelujah.