Egypt Wasn't Swamped

As the nation approaches the orgasm stage in that three-month orgy of sales-talk, saccharine and sanctimony which is the Season of Feastmas, the annual copyright war has broken out over who really owns the Baby Jesus. The Home Secretary's fellow patriot, the Reverend Tommyrot Yaxleyson, is urging that Christ be put back into Christmas (I should have thought the clue was in the name, but literalism can be a dangerous thing); while the Church of England is planning a poster campaign implying that the Saviour might have had some sort of soft spot for goats as well as sheep. One bishop even had the gall to invoke the flight into Egypt, which succeeded because the parents of Baby Jesus had friends in high places and which involved leaving numerous other infants to be massacred while the Father sat twiddling His omnipotent thumbs. It's difficult to see what reason to change their views the Reverend Tommyrot Yaxleyson or his flock might find in that compassionate display.