Three elements of faith. Tribal, convinced, growing
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As I’ve said before, I respect your faith and your thoughtfulness. And I recognize on this issue we will never agree. While I find I’m wrong sometimes, yet I remain confident on this as I look back through history. History is very clear that each wave of immigrants did not come for the purpose of altering America. They came for the purpose of making a new life for themselves. They came knowing they would face hardship. But they were leaving a worse hardship. And every single time they caused a reaction of fear and disgust amid the citizens of that time. And only decades later, looking back, was it realized they had, on balance, made our country better. It had nothing to do with racial or ethnic or religious identity. This is no different. I know you don’t see it that way. I’m actually sorry for you and others like you. And I’m sorry for almost every muslim who has no intention of disrupting America and wants only to build a life for their family.I disagree. Of all nations it was the western nations that immigrants wanted to come. I wonder why. Because of all nations they had democracy and rights and freedoms. They had a decent standard of living. I remember the famous saying about America being the "land of opportunity" and "land of freedom".
The US was built on immigration into that iconic idea. It stemmed from western Christianity which also underpinned human rights. That is the western culture. Sure it developed some bad aspects like unbridled individualism and materialism. But the fundemental principles of a free democracy were what people believed in.
This is oposed to other ideologies like Islam as a theocracy or socialism, marxism and communism. Even Christianism as a theocracy. These ideas fundementally create class and identity warfare which decends into tribalism.
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