For her son’s school "holiday party" last week, Julie West baked a birthday cake for the baby Jesus – a gesture of defiance both against his teachers and the growing campaign in America to remove any trace of Christmas from public life.<\/p>\n
Six-year-old Aaron had brought home a note from his school, in Washington state, that asked parents to provide food that their family traditionally enjoyed during the holiday season.<\/p>\n
"He asked for the cake I make at Christmas with the words ‘Happy Birthday Jesus’," said Ms West. "I called the school to let them know, but a few days later the teacher phoned back to say that I couldn’t bring the cake as the party was not a religious event."<\/p>\n
Ms West, who attends a non-denominational church in Edmonds, near Seattle, was amazed. "It wasn’t an attempt to impose my beliefs on anyone. It was just a cake," she said. "I think all traditions and religions should be celebrated at this time of year."<\/p>\n
After researching the issue on the internet she contacted the Rutherford Institute, a mainstream pressure group that defends religious freedom. It assured her that even though the American constitution bans the promotion of religion by the government, simply bringing a cake iced with "Happy Birthday Jesus" into the school broke no laws. "So I took the cake in for the party on Tuesday and none of the other parents or children were offended," she said. "The only comment was how delicious it was. [Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n Now a theologically correct birthday cake cake for Jesus I think would include the following. Three layers to reflect the Trinity and two flavors of frosting to represent the two natures of Jesus. While Angels food cake wouldn’t be mandated, devils food would be out for sure. Now candles would really be a tricky situation. You would have to have infinite candles to reflect Jesus’ divine nature or 2000 plus candles to reflect his human nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For her son’s school "holiday party" last week, Julie West baked a birthday cake for the baby Jesus – a gesture of defiance both against his teachers and the growing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}