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To: BroJoeK
So open your Bible and read it, and you will learn that the Truth will set you free from your lies, your hatred and false accusations against people who don't deserve such abuse.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Leviticus, Catholic chapter nineteen, Protestant verses seventeen to eighteen,
Matthew, Catholic chapter twenty five, Protestant verses thirty one to forty six,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

185 posted on 05/12/2015 6:06:17 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981
Just so we're clear on this, Roosevelt is justly criticized for any number of failures, including the following:

  1. His New Deal Big Government programs were counterproductive, lengthening the Great Depression in the United States years beyond the time of recovery in every other industrialized nation.

  2. His internment of Japanese-American civilians during WWII was later ruled so unjust the government was forced to pay restitution to the survivors.

  3. Like Kennedy and Clinton, FDR was unfaithful to his wife, both before and after coming down with polio.

But on the matter of immigration, despite strong opposition, FDR did more than the law required, or allowed.
Given that isolationist opposition FDR went as far as he thought he could go, without jeopardizing his efforts to prepare the US for war -- a war which the overwhelming majority of Americans did not want to join.

In addition to personal negotiations which allowed nearly 8,000 German Jews to immigrate to Cuba, FDR also negotiated 5,000 for Paraguay, and influenced Brazil (10,000) and Bolivia (20,000) to accept significant numbers -- 40,000 in total, which matches the numbers Britain accepted into Palestine.

At the time, after Krystallnacht, when Britain agreed to take in 10,000 Jewish orphans, a bill was also introduced to Congress allowing 20,000 children into the United States.
The bill was supported by FDR, his wife Eleanor, former Republican President Hoover and Republican nominee for president Alf Landon.
But it was opposed by isolationists / conservatives, both Democrat and Republicans, including Ohio Senator Robert Taft, whose judgment was: "the United States has already done enough".

Yes, FDR is criticized for not supporting that bill strongly enough, but the fact is, he needed those Democrat & Republican conservatives to support his preparations for war, and so was reluctant to p*ss them off.

The bill to provide refuge for 20,000 Jewish children was gutted & defeated.

Bottom line: FDR is justly rebuked for many things, but his actions regarding Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany are not among them.
Adolf Hitler is to blame for the Holocaust, not Franklin Roosevelt.

Have a nice day!

186 posted on 05/14/2015 12:03:08 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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