RE: Illegal Immigrants
June 23, 2018 at 11:12 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2018 at 11:32 am by The Industrial Atheist.)
What immigration crisis? We have more undocumented Mexican immigrants leaving than coming in, for the past few years. Faux News likes to ignore this and act like it isn't a fact.
Jesus (if he existed) preached Pacifism and love for the poor. Who votes for the party that's the most militaristic and the least sympathetic towards anyone who needs help from the government the most? Those who say they love Jesus.
Some Christians don't vote Republican. I guess it depends if Pacifism and love for the poor is more their core belief than saving what's technically humans in a fetal state that can't see, hear, think, or feel pain. The first set of things is clearly spelled out in the Bible the second is not.
Or stopping gays and lesbians from marrying each other. Which the bible says gay sex is a sin, and possibly desiring gay sex is, but doesn't spell out that anyone should stop them from marrying.
Then you have in the OT where it talks about how to treat the Sojourner in your land.(Undocumented immigrants) That doesn't count because it's the OT I guess. But tithing, completely reworked and changed from food to money and giving them to the Church in general, instead of yourself, Levites and the poor, does.
Because,
My Priest, Preacher, Pastor said so.
(June 23, 2018 at 10:25 am)Chad32 Wrote: We can't seem to get out government to improve our own infrastructure, much less a neighboring country. They'd rather shovel money into the military, or subsidies for multinational corporations. They love to talk about regime change in places like Iraq and Lybia, but their only solution for the problem with Mexico in a wall.
Jesus (if he existed) preached Pacifism and love for the poor. Who votes for the party that's the most militaristic and the least sympathetic towards anyone who needs help from the government the most? Those who say they love Jesus.
Some Christians don't vote Republican. I guess it depends if Pacifism and love for the poor is more their core belief than saving what's technically humans in a fetal state that can't see, hear, think, or feel pain. The first set of things is clearly spelled out in the Bible the second is not.
Or stopping gays and lesbians from marrying each other. Which the bible says gay sex is a sin, and possibly desiring gay sex is, but doesn't spell out that anyone should stop them from marrying.
Then you have in the OT where it talks about how to treat the Sojourner in your land.(Undocumented immigrants) That doesn't count because it's the OT I guess. But tithing, completely reworked and changed from food to money and giving them to the Church in general, instead of yourself, Levites and the poor, does.
Because,
My Priest, Preacher, Pastor said so.