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I think much can be explain by quote from John Stuart Mill:
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative.
For the record, not every conservative is hostile towards undocumented immigrants. When John McCain ran for president in 2008, he advocated a pathway to citizenship for these people. Lindsay Graham, Jeb Bush, and other compassionate conservatives likewise support an amnesty. In fact, I’m a conservative who also feels sympathy towards the undocumented community and wants to see the government help make the good law-abiding ones become citizens.
However, Donald Trump basically became president by scapegoating people in this country illegally. When he said he would build a wall along the US-Mexico border, his support went through the roof and secured his nomination. The fact that he accumulated so much support from Republican-voters testifies to the hostility that so many conservatives feel towards undocumented immigrants. To me, this is a very sad thing.
The Bible says this in Leviticus 19:34: “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” Obviously those foreigners residing in ancient Israel didn’t have visas or passports. They were undocumented immigrants for all practical purposes. And God is telling his chosen people to treat them as native-born residents. This means God wants us to treat undocumented immigrants in the US with compassion.
Of course I’m aware of drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and violent criminals who come here illegally. By all means deport them. But what about the ones who study hard, abide by all the laws and don’t commit crime, and live like normal people? They’ve been here much of their lives and should be given a pathway to citizenship.
As a Republican and compassionate conservative, I don’t think I’ll ever understand what motivates so many other conservatives to feel so much hostility towards people just because they’re different. Yes, they came into this country illegally, but hasn’t everyone done something illegal in their life at one time? Give them a chance.
Our GOP is besmirched with xenophobia and needs to clean up.
Our GOP is besmirched with xenophobia and needs to clean up.
Poor guy, you really don't seem to match up with the Bible. God separated people groups by language and SET their boundaries.
If we look at language groups, they are ALL related to race. Therefore, it can be surmised that God wanted the races separate.
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation
Cool fact: Moses' wife was an Ethiopian. Look it up.
Therefore, it can be surmised that God wanted the races separate.
Hardly!
And you know this, because?
Anything Biblical to support that God wants nations mixed according to race?
Anything to say that He doesn't? After all, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
That said, that does not invalidate God's separation of peoples.
I gave you the verse, and I indicated that based on the knowledge we do have, you can ascertain that God intended for the races to be separate.
The idea of "God's separation of peoples" is not Biblical. As to your ideas about languages, I'm curious as to (1) which of the groups in the chart below should be "separate" according to you, (2) whether the "Eurasiatic" or "Nostratic" theories should be used for grouping, and (3) why you are living on land clearly (according to your own theories) allocated by God to Native American language groups.
There are language groups and sub language groups (much what you included). Yes, it seems very correlational with race.
North America was unsettled up until a few thousand years ago.
God's separation of people's is not Biblical?
Well, (1) that verse relates to the boundaries in space and time of individual nations, and (2) you only quoted half the sentence, which continues into verse 27a:
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way towards him and find him. (ESV)
There is nothing there about keeping races separate. On the contrary, in fact -- it explains why God appointed the multi-racial empires of Greece and Rome: that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way towards him and find him.
Not really. You obviously didn't take a close look at the chart.
Archaeology says otherwise.
And they were certainly in America before Europeans. Therefore, on your theory, it belongs to them.
No, it's not. Your verse from Genesis doesn't say what you think it does, and I've already addressed your misquote of Acts.
There are no Biblical grounds for "separation of races" -- it's just racism.
I did take a look at the chart. It basically has African languages together, east Asian languages together and European and middle eastern languages together
Archaeology says no such thing.
It is as clear as day. It is the only meaning that you can get from both verses.
My goodness, your left wing thinking
"It's just racism". How original. This is the same as calling God a racist?
In fact, I’m a conservative who also feels sympathy towards the undocumented community and wants to see the government help make the good law-abiding ones become citizens.
I did take a look at the chart. It basically has African languages together, east Asian languages together and European and middle eastern languages together (many middle eastern inhabitants once looked closer to Europeans).
Archaeology says no such thing. Their DNA is traced back to parts of Mongolia.
Maybe, maybe not, but it is debateable, as there are conflicting ideas.
It is as clear as day. It is the only meaning that you can get from both verses. My goodness, your left wing thinking has deluded you from seeing what is blatantly said in the scripture.
"It's just racism". How original. This is the same as calling God a racist? After all, it is His word, and you are calling what he said "racism"? Your interpretation is inaccurate.
For the record, not every conservative is hostile towards undocumented immigrants. When John McCain ran for president in 2008, he advocated a pathway to citizenship for these people. Lindsay Graham, Jeb Bush, and other compassionate conservatives likewise support an amnesty. In fact, I’m a conservative who also feels sympathy towards the undocumented community and wants to see the government help make the good law-abiding ones become citizens.
However, Donald Trump basically became president by scapegoating people in this country illegally. When he said he would build a wall along the US-Mexico border, his support went through the roof and secured his nomination. The fact that he accumulated so much support from Republican-voters testifies to the hostility that so many conservatives feel towards undocumented immigrants. To me, this is a very sad thing.
The Bible says this in Leviticus 19:34: “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” Obviously those foreigners residing in ancient Israel didn’t have visas or passports. They were undocumented immigrants for all practical purposes. And God is telling his chosen people to treat them as native-born residents. This means God wants us to treat undocumented immigrants in the US with compassion.
Of course I’m aware of drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and violent criminals who come here illegally. By all means deport them. But what about the ones who study hard, abide by all the laws and don’t commit crime, and live like normal people? They’ve been here much of their lives and should be given a pathway to citizenship.
As a Republican and compassionate conservative, I don’t think I’ll ever understand what motivates so many other conservatives to feel so much hostility towards people just because they’re different. Yes, they came into this country illegally, but hasn’t everyone done something illegal in their life at one time? Give them a chance.
Our GOP is besmirched with xenophobia and needs to clean up.
I have compassion for them too, but I wish they would come into the country legally. The Kate Steinle killing really boils my blood.
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