Posted on 05/25/2008 4:17:34 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Frankly the bulldog, take-no-prisoners attitude I sense from many posters daily is flat-out un-Christlike.I have not seen such an attitude here. No one here has advocated anything other than granting due process and returning those who violate our laws to their own country.
That church should remember Matthew 22:21, which states that Jesus said, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caasar and to God what bedlongs to God.” That means that Jesus wanted us to obey all laws. He probably thinks that our government should deport as many illegal aliens as possible, as quickly as possible.
Many illeal immigrants worship Santa Muerte — Saint Death.
exactly. Plus, I guess the next time someone breaks into my house, I don’t call the authorities....I just take a chance and not protect my child/home....and say “Oh I am sorry, did you need a t.v.?? Here take mine and Lord go with you....just please don’t shoot us on your way out...”
The Lord did not give us this country so that we would have the freedoms we do so that we could let another group of unappreciative law breakers in to wear away at our countries and culture...
The Catholic Church only wants them here so there will be more Catholics in the U.S. The Catholic church is only concerned with spreading Catholicism. Sorry if that offends anyone, but if the truth offends you then so be it...
If the church REALLY wanted to help these people they would pay their passage back to Mexico and send food/water or whatever it is that they need with them.....but helping them stay is just as bad as ANYONE that harbors a fugitive...I don’t care if you call yourself a church or how spiritual you are...
“Were Jesus to walk around in the U.S. today, he’d be visiting at the homes of illegals, among others. He fraternized with all kinds of lowly types - the poor, prostitutes, etc. He’d never encourage illegal behavior (unless in violation of God’s law), but he’d surely forgive them...”
Um, part of getting forgiveness is not having the intention of doing it again...and one more note....when Jese “hung out” with those people he always forgave them and said GO AND SIN NO MORE!
The alien guests to be treated with kindness acted like guests. Spies and rebellious natives were executed.
1) sojourner
a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights
b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights
Agreed. As a Catholic, I'm offended that they're acting like just any other left-wing group: Being generous with other people's property.
The balance is that the “alien” in Old Testament Israel was a novelty. Mostly just passing through.
Not 20-30 million, with one million more every year.
That’s called an invasion.
And God in the Old Testament had a different way of dealing with that.
We should be sending them to the Kennedy Compound, to Bush's "Prairie Chapel Ranch" and to MacNut's mansion in Sedona. Let them demonstrate how much the country needs them by spending their resources instead of the country's.
And these same poor, pathetic illegal immigrants are the same ones we see in the demonstrations later, marching down streets carrying American flags hung upside-down underneath Mexican flags, threatening to “reconquer” American territory. I suppose the Christian thing to do would be to give them the Southwest, and whatever other regions they demand after that?
Here is a list of them, just so you know who they are:
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Amazing how "churches" care more about filling the pews than they do about the thousands upon thousands of Americans killed by illegals since 9/11.>>>>>>>>>>>
In truth you speak. The Interfaith Council has put billions of dollars into Illegal immigrant assitance over the last twenty years. There is compassion and then there is IDIOT COMPASSION!( a liberal affectation). They are the lobbying group that has The President and the RINOs fawning all over them on illegal aliens! They wage demographic warfare on the United States, under the banner of Marxist socialist Liberation Theology!
Who are they? Take a gander:
http://www.wr.org/ourwork/whatwedo/reform.asp
QUOTE:
We, the undersigned faith-based leaders and organizations, join together to call upon President Bush and our elected officials in Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform legislation that establishes a safe and humane immigration system consistent with our values. Our diverse faith traditions teach us to welcome our brothers and sisters with love and compassion.
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The result of the Roman Catholic foundation movement is here, among many other religious institutions whose liberal values represent a multicultural agenda, and a complete social change for the United States, and the devolution of our culture of freedom through immigration for immigrants who have no intended allegiance to the United States or its constitution:
National Organizations:
Anti-Defamation League
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Congress
American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA)
B’nai B’rith International
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Church World Service/Immigration and Refugee Program
The Conference of Major Superiors of Men
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
International Catholic Migration Commission
Irish Apostolate, USA
Islamic Circle of North America
Jesuit Conference
Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
Jubilee Campaign USA
Justice for Our Neighbors Immigration Clinic Network
La Ermita - The Hermitage
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office
Mexican American Cultural Center
National Council of Jewish Women
National Ministries, American Baptist Churches USA
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Union for Reform Judaism
United Jewish Communities
United Methodist Committee on Relief
United States Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart
Women In Islam, Inc.
Women’s League for Conservative Judaism
World Relief
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Local Organizations:
Baltimore Jewish Council
Building Bridges: Hispanic Outreach Project Community of St. Anthony Church in Canton, Ohio
Cabrini Immigrant Services, Dobbs Ferry, New York
Cabrini Immigrant Services, New York, New York
California Province of the Society of Jesus Capuchin Province of St. Joseph, Detroit, Michigan
Catholic Charities Diocese of Des Moines
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego
Catholic Charities Hawaii
Catholic Charities Health and Human Services, Diocese of Cleveland
Catholic Charities Housing Opportunities (CCHO), Youngstown, Ohio
Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia
Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington
Catholic Migration Office of the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
Catholic Social Services in Anchorage, Alaska
Clerics of St. Viator, Chicago Province
Commonwealth Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio
Congregation of Holy Cross, Southern Province
Congregation of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, Huntington, Indiana
Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus
En Camino, Migrant and Immigrant Services, Diocese of Toledo, Ohio
Family Unity & Citizenship Program of the Diocese of Las Cruces
HIAS and Council Migration Services of Philadelphia
Hogar Hispano - Catholic Charities, Falls Church, Virginia Houston Dominican Sisters
Human Concerns Commission of the Diocese of San Jose
Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Ministries of Illinois
Jewish Community Action, St. Paul, Minnesota
Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona
Lutheran Children and Family Service of Eastern Pennsylvania
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
Lutheran Social Services of Michigan
Lutheran Social Services of New England
Lutheran Social Services of Northern New England
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota
Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area
Marianist Province of the United States, St. Louis, Missouri
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, New York
Migration and Refugee Services Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey
Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Province of the Immaculate Conception, Paterson, New Jersey
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Stella Maris Province, New York, New York
Missionhurst-CICM, Arlington, Virginia
National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Des Moines, Iowa
New Albany Deanery of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana
Northern Indiana Ecumenical Multicultural Ministry (NIEMM), Morocco, Indiana
Organización for Latino Awareness of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago
Priests of the Sacred Heart (SCJ), Hales Corners, Wisconsin
Provincial Council of the Province of St. John the Baptist of the Order of Friars Minor, Cincinnati, Ohio
River's Edge Community Church, Oella, Maryland
Saints Peter and Paul Church, Savannah, Georgia
Society of Jesus (Jesuits), New York Province
Society of the Divine Word, Chicago Province
St James Faithful Citizenship, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
St James Parish Council, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
St James Parish Social Ministries, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
St. Benedict's Abbey, Benet Lake, Wisconsin
UJA-Federation of New York
Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John's University, New York
Western Dominican Province, Oakland, California
Wider Church Ministries - United Church of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio
Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus
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Individual Faith Leaders:
Pamela Beech, Archdiocese of Detroit, Lay Leadership and Formation
Rev. Dr. Clive Calver, Walnut Hill Community Church, Bethel, CT
P. Adem Carroll, 9/11 Relief Director Islamic Circle of North America USA (ICNA Relief)
Patrick Gilger, SJ, Loyola University Chicago
Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn
John E. Dister, SJ, Detroit Province Jesuits, Loyola of the Lakes Retreat House
Bob Dunden, SJ, St Benedict the Moor Parish, Omaha, NE
John C. Fickes, Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus
Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago
Michael Higgins, C.P., Provincial Superior of Holy Cross Province of the Passionists, Chicago, Illinois
Daniel Idzikowski, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of La Crosse, Inc., La Crosse, Wisconsin
Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh, Port Wentworth, Georgia
Dr Khurshid Khan, President of the Islamic Circle of North America
Most Reverend Gerald Kicanas, Bishop of Tucson
Clifton Kirkpatrick, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church-USA
Abbot Jerome Kodell, OSB, Subiaco, Arkansas
Reverand John S.Korcsmar, CSC, Austin, Texas
Sister Larraine Lauter OSU, Owensboro, Kentucky
Reverand Msgr. Ronald T. Marino, Brooklyn, New York
Peter Vander Meulen, Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action, Christian Reformed Church
Carrie Monnette, Detroit Province Jesuits, Assistant for Social and International Ministries
Allan Parker, Pastor, Quitman Church of the Nazarene, Quitman, GA
Sylvia Romero, Hispanic Ministry at Grace United Methodist Church, Olathe, Kansas
Most Reverend Carlos Sevilla, S.J., Bishop of Yakima, Washington
Secretary General, Rashid Siddiqui, Islamic Circle of North America
Michael Simone, SJ, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Most Reverend Jaime Soto, Auxiliary Bishop of Orange, California
Madonna Della Strada, Jesuit Residence
Professor Elie Wiesel, Boston University
Most Reverend Thomas G. Wenski, Bishop of Orlando
lol...
I prefer the gringo babe in a bikini!
Were Jesus to walk around in the U.S. today, he’d be visiting at the homes of illegals, among others. He fraternized with all kinds of lowly types - the poor, prostitutes, etc.”
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Read futher on down in your Bible, He also told them to “go, and sin no more.”
Um, part of getting forgiveness is not having the intention of doing it again...and one more note....when Jese “hung out” with those people he always forgave them and said GO AND SIN NO MORE!
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Note: Key word here is GO.
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