[KarlInOhio]

"Mary and Joseph took a Cadillac to get to Bethlehem because the finest transportation of their day was a donkey," says Anderson. "Poor people ate their donkey. Only the wealthy used it as transportation."

Ate their donkey? Does it have cloven hooves? Nope. How about chewing its cut? Also no. Therefore a donkey is not kosher. Jews don't eat their donkeys. Also a donkey is a working animal. Eating it would be like eating your seed corn - you might do it in times of famine as an act of desperation when everyone is struggling for food.

I love arguing that Jesus' family had to stay in a stable because they were poor. The purpose for the census was taxation, so Mary and Joseph weren't poor - they were being audited. That usually leaves social justice leftists' heads spinning.

[Arthur McGowan]

I’m too lazy to look, but I don’t think the gospels mention any donkey. Paintings and figurines should not be mistaken for the Gospel.