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Posted on 05/22/2025 8:24:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was asked this week how I can be a Christian and support Donald Trump throwing out thousands of illegal aliens. But one of the toughest things about being a Christian is trying to be a citizen. No — scratch that. I mean trying to be a good citizen.
Saint Paul was a citizen, too, but I don’t think he cared a bit about the Roman Empire. He gave the impression that if the Gauls invaded tomorrow, he would just shrug his shoulders and try to baptize them, too. And although he was the polar opposite of Thomas Paine in almost every respect, he shared that one annoying and almost liberal quality: that he didn’t view himself a citizen of any country in particular, but a citizen of the world. Except Paine’s world was too small for Paul. Paul viewed himself as the child of the king of the universe.
Governments were thus always too narrow and short-sighted for a man of a truly religious mindset. Even ethnicity and race got the boot when it came down to it. But to be a good citizen requires a whole set of priorities and principles at odds with the whole gist of Christianity, and if you take both seriously, it tends to put you in a state of cognitive dissonance.
For instance, the first priority of government is what all Americans would today call “racism,” but which is the foundational preoccupation with being any organization at all. And that is saying, “We are like this, and because you are like that, you stay over there.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.
King david was both an adulterer and murderer, yet he was described as “a man after God’s own heart”. Apparently people are complicated.👍
Non Trump supporters can’t be Christian they only have hate for America.
Media approved
Journalism is gasping. How did an editor actually let this thing hit the sheet?
The article argues from a slective premise. Paul would absolutely have agreed that a government has the responsibility to protect the citizenry from criminal elements.
Yes he was Kingdom focused and correctly would have put salvation above all else. He would not have been against nor even ambivalent against a government performing the duties our Lord has assigned to it.
There is by todays standards much racism in the old testament. Yet every word comes from the mouth of God.
What a silly conundrum built on a canard
Substitute Biden. Obama, Pelosi...for Trump, and it never sees the light of day in the MSM.
Absolutely!
The more honest question is how can a person who claims to be born of the Spirit support and vote for Democrats?
Liberal Christians believe anyone who disagrees with their stance is a Bad Person.
Agree
What are people yammering about. Our immigration laws are not under investigation
No one is challenging them. They’re just breaking them
Prove they’re unjust and examine their compatibility with judeochristian ethos or let it go. But no one is doing that
So far as Christianity is concerned, the catechism itself says you can’t break the law. You can’t take away from the country. Anyone acting against the US laws and also the catechism is going against the rules. They don’t get to say the rules are wrong as defense. Challenge the rules properly not by just breaking them
This includes presidents and popes
Here’s a google rendition. Even they couldn’t whitewash it:
“Common Good and Border Security: It also acknowledges that political authorities have a responsibility for the common good, which includes regulating immigration and controlling borders. This acknowledges a nation’s right to set conditions on immigration, balancing the needs of its citizens with the duty to welcome those in need.
Respect for Immigrants’ Duties: Immigrants are obliged to respect the laws and heritage of their host country, and contribute to its civic life.”
I did not read past the excerpt posted here on free republic. That was all the claptrap I could stomach.
I’m sick of these nimrods climbing that I’m a bad person because I defend myself and my family and their welfare and well-being.
While nationalism has its drawbacks, it is one hell of a lot better than globalism. I would like to know just what the world would be like had there never been a United States. I’m pretty sure it would have been a whole lot worse than it is now.
Jeremy can stick his assumptions where the sun don’t shine.
What a stupid question
If someone were to ask me if it’s possible to be a good Christian while supporting Donald Trump, my answer would be as follows: The level of dedication to my faith and the judgment of my adherence to God’s word belongs only to God - not man and certainly not the followers of abortion theology.
RE: certainly not the followers of abortion theology.
Amen, and you could add, LGBTQ theology in the mix.
Question is. Can you be a Democrat and be a Christian .
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