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Stop me if you have heard this one before….
“Belgian authorities are mystified over a brazen theft over the weekend from a Christmas Nativity scene of an icon of infant Jesus Christ that had been widely scorned online. Snatched from his crib on the Grand Place in historic old Brussels between late Friday night or early Saturday morning, this specific version of infant Jesus is part of a nativity scene which has been at the center of a maelstrom on social media because the faces of the characters lack eyes, noses and mouths.”[1]
Is this what it has come to? People who are so upset about the look of a nativity scene that they steal baby Jesus? Wow!
Just for the record, the reason the nativity characters didn’t have facial features was an attempt by the artist to let everyone see a bit of themselves in the story, bypassing hurdles like skin color, beauty, and artistic interpretation. But it appears that a Jesus with no nose makes people very angry.
This comes, coincidentally, in the same month that the Oxford University Press named “rage bait” as the word of the year (ignore the fact that it is two words). Rage bait is the content put online designed to purposefully push your buttons and get you angry enough to click on it. Similar to clickbait and honey traps, the whole point is to push you to a page that contains advertising from which they get revenue. In other words, making people angry is a good business model.
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