[Dutchboy88]

"Actually, he's right. The part of the Bible that is relevant is Joshua, chapter 9. We are the Gibeonites. The Israelites under Joshua were undocumented immigrants in the Land of Canaan. The Gibeonites were ordered to become hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Israelites. In modern terms that means welfare, food stamps, free health care, and affirmative action (for non-European immigrants), paid for by the American citizens."

Actually, if this is the kind of hermeneutic you employ, then just about any fanciful thing can be crafted from the text. Using ordinary interpretive principles, the "priest" is wrong (but typically a liberal Catholic.

There is no biblical basis for breaking into a country for financial gain (the excuse used by those crossing the border illegally). There is no analogical justification to say this historical group represents us (or them). And, no the Israelites were not "undocumented immigrants" in Canaan. The land had been given to Abraham 430 years earlier and they were just laying claim to their deed.

[Verginius Rufus]

I thought it would be obvious that my post was sarcastic. Good grief.