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Originally Posted by The Pope
The scene includes a wooden grotto with an ox, donkey, angel, Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus. The wooden figures will also have tradesmen and tradeswomen typical of the area where the Nativity was made, a shepherdess, and a family and children.
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After last year's horror show, he's treading more lightly. Still idolatrous, goes without saying really, inviting a closer look at the current display. We start off with fourteen idols. I highlighted one problem area in the quote: I think she's number nine in the first picture. Number one could be Aphrodite, numbers two & three are detailed in the bottom picture: “Allow me to twist your head off.” Or it could be neck snapping from what I understand the hands are in the wrong position for head twisting which needs to be done without announcing one's intention.
The fourteenth idol is a random feature, one of many roof-mounted examples, and the king is off to the right and not visible. I've included a view showing the blasphemous tree. No doubt the pope will be doing some muttering and incense burning, neither of which ever occur in a Baptist Church but which are common enough in heathen temples to be considered essential. I couldn't see a baby Jesus but He's the last thing heretics ever consider so no surprise there. He could be a glowing orb however (there's something glowing in the manger) put there to represent the sun, with the goddess on the roof a picture of heathen idolatry. And that's about where we came in.