The best article Ive read on the issue of illegal immigration. This nails it. Excerpts: In all matters, the Bible teaches discernment,...Basic respect and kindness is one thing -- it is a sign of our humanity; onerous sacrifice and national bankruptcy is another, something not required. The Bible is a compassionate document, but also a cautious one, asking that we eschew hyperbole and employ discernment and balance. No value, not even compassion, is set in a vacuum or regarded as so open-ended as to be blind to reality. No gesture can ignore the impact of how what may be good for one is harmful and unfair to thousands of others. Compassion is a two-way street, something demanded even from the stranger toward the citizen/provider. Justice and compassion demand that we safeguard our citizens and children from the specter of incoming crime and disease. Nor did the Bible request that the decency we extend to strangers result in national suicide. It never encouraged a virtual open-border situation where the host country is overrun and loses its indigenous culture, suspends its laws, invites disarray, or forfeits its ability to flourish as a unique and sovereign entity. Indeed, so paramount was the ideal of protected borders, and what it means to a country’s economic and cultural viability, that God said, “And I shall protect your borders so that strangers and enemies will not fill your camp and become a thorn in your side (Exodus 34:12).” Over the years, many in the social-justice crowd have boasted that they “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” How ironic that those making the point not to afflict the stranger have a knee-jerk desire to afflict the comfortable, including most of the middle class who daily work hard just to remain afloat. It sounds more like vengeance than it does social justice.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 06:25:16 +0000
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