An uncomfortable number of Christians would say "yes."
The reason why I say "uncomfortable" is because Biblical literalists are alienating millions from Christianity. Simple-minded Biblical literalists (along with the sex sins of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers) are going to kill-off Christianity, if we let them.
Instead of, "Every jot and tittle of Luke 2:7 is absolutely perfectly historical," the proper answer to the question, "Are the divinely-inspired words of Luke 2:7, saying that Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, true?" is, "It doesn't matter."
Why doesn't it matter?
Because in Luke 2:7, the Holy Spirit wasn't inspiring the words to teach us history.
Instead, the Holy spirit was inspiring the words to teach us that when Christ came to the world, He came to the world to become the Real Presence of Christ's sacrificed body and blood in the sacred Eucharist."
Note well: When Mary is said to wrap Jesus in swaddling clothes ...
... the divinely-inspired story functionally has her making Jesus look like the dead adult wrapped-up in his shroud in the tomb after his crucifixion ...
... and when Mary is said to place Jesus in the manger, a feeding trough for yoked animals in Bethlehem, Hebrew for "the House of Bread," ...
... the divinely-inspired story functionally has her placing Jesus on a kind of a "dinner plate" in a "bread bakery" ...
Voila! The Holy Spirit inspired Luke 2:7 NOT to teach us history, but to tell us that the One Who Came came to be this ...
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