In his Christmas message, Fred Hiltz tells us that “as I read the Christmas story, I am always taken by the way we portray the innkeeper”, an odd fascination for an archbishop, since in the Biblical account of Christmas, there is no mention of an innkeeper. Still, the important thing about Christmas isn’t that it is an event of cosmic significance around which all history pivots, because God himself entered time as a baby, but that Canada must accept more Syrian migrants.
And for that we need an innkeeper.
The other problem is that Hiltz completely forgets about the little drummer boy.
There was also a mistake here ,it wasn’t weeks after his birth that Jesus went to Egypt to escape Herod but more like around 2 years .You just have to read Matt 2. ,they were no longer in the stable but in a house and the the declaration of King Herod “he gave orders to kill all the boy in Bethlehem and in the vicinity who were two years old and under ,in accordance to the time he had learned from the Magi” If It were weeks He would have said ,Kill all the new born. Maybe a little more bible study needed here
were I to give more than 5-6 seconds thought to this (ie FH and his followers madness) I would go stark raving mad- so I shall continue to revel in the majesty and earthshaking ramifications of the recognition of the blessed event of the saviour of the world being being born (in a stable because “there was no room in the inn”)