[AP Photo by J. Pat Carter]The Jesus used in that nativity display is an original ceramic figurine, made in Italy, and valued at approximately $1,800.
Sounds good, but baby Jesus tends to disappear.
That pissed off the leaders of Wellington so they put a GPS unit inside the figurine. Last year, when baby Jesus disappeared, they were able to track it to an apartment where they found it face down on the floor. Police arrested an 18-year old woman.
But a question remains: Why would anyone place a figurine worth $1,800 in an untended outside display?
Similar thefts of Jesus figurines, as well as other religious symbols have led New York-based Brickhouse Security to offer some 200 nonprofit religious institutions the use of security cameras and their GPS product free for a month.
Just another way that Jesus brings "peace on earth and goodwill to all"!
A final thought. The earliest Gospel, Mark, does not mention Jesus' birth, nor does the latest Gospel, John. Only Matthew and Luke take an interest in when or where Jesus was born. Unfortunately, they got their wires crossed or their sources mixed because they don't agree on very much.
But even more curious is that after the miraculous birth we hear nothing of Jesus in any of the Gospels until he is an adult, except for the little tidbit about his parents leaving him behind in Jerusalem where he proceeded to "teach" the teachers.
Just think: If they had had a GPS unit, they could have sewn it into his robe and bingo, they would have known immediately where he was!
More importantly, they could have kept track of everything he did from his birth to his baptism, a period the Gospel writers ignore completely.
That would give christianists more material to argue about.
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