Posted on 05/09/2013 2:22:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How about we lynch the dam reverend if any one of them dam ‘legals commits a crime. Will that work for ya, Rev!?
Mr. Wallis, would Christ have entered a country illegally? Would he have committed fraud to obtain a driver's license or other government services he wasn't entitled to?
The Pentateuch says repeatedly that there was to be one law for the stranger and the Israelites alike: if the Gentiles joined the Mosaic covenant (i.e. assimilated) they were entitled to participate in the Passover, the sacrifices, and the rest of covenant life. Not before.
I would suggest there is a vast difference between a stranger and one who violates the law.
I hate the “we’re all immigrants” meme.
When the English sailed up the James River to establish Jamestown, I had forebears on the ships, and forebears in the woods watching them arrive.
They also like to push the idea that we were illegal immigrants. Much of New England and Pennsylvania was settled on land bought with the Indians consent.
**It’s not about the stranger,**
So would you have welcome the Irish?
The Italians?
The Japanese?
The Polish?
God made all people in his image.
“We cannot reform immigration, if we cannot control immigration. We cannot control immigration unless we can secure our borders and control those borders.” ~ Lou Dobbs (April 2006)
Your comment makes no sense. And you quote only half of my comment - the argument is not about how we treat a “stranger,” it’s about how we treat law-breakers. Very different. God also expects us to obey laws.
I think class does have something to do with it. These big ministers with mega churches live in wealthy neighborhoods. They do not see their neighborhoods going downhill and they will not get up one morning to find gang signs spray painted on their garages. They probably don’t have family members who do blue collar work and their kids probably don’t need jobs so that they can afford college. Illegals are taking lots of building jobs which is cutting in to the good paying manual jobs that American dads need to feed their children, but then nobody sees that illegals are taking jobs away from American workers. What does it take? Do they need to see American kids looking through trash cans for food scraps?
The illegals are coming up here because there is a shortage of resources where they came from. If there is a shortage of opportunities will they not cut into our resources? How can the *do gooders* not see that they are cutting into our wealth and opportunity?
I have seen both Catholic and Protestant missionaries going to Mexico and South America. Why is it that the churches that have been in those countries for five hundred years have not done more to educate and feed the people? If you ever watched the tv show “Little House on the Prarie” you will recall that the little town had a building that served as a school, church and courthouse. The American pioneers were not rich but they made use of their every resource such as the building that was used as a church on Sunday, a school during the week and a courthouse when the circuit judge came to town. Why haven’t the churches in Mexico and South American done the same thing? Why not let the people of the village use the church for a school during the week? Why not hire a young person to teach all the grades of kids as the one room school houses used to do in the 18 hundreds? The children were well educated with very little equipment. I have seen American missionaries going to Mexico and South America to open schools for the poor—why can’t people use their God given ingenuity to do the same? But you will not hear this from the clergy because it would sound too critical but if a culture has a lot of problems, they must be confronted with their flaws not flattered and put on a pedestal as some of our religious leaders are doing while feeling that they are just doing the loving Christian thing. Jesus was not afraid to confront people with their sins and shortcomings but many in today’s church just want to have a schmooze-fest.
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods.” They are coveting what belongs to us.
This Rodriguez guy is such as snake in the grass, I wish I knew more about his history. He difinately is working with the democrats or the CFR.
EBT poster boy.
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