Syrian Refugees

[HoughMade]

I particularly like the part where we hold Christians, rigidly, to a few verses divorced from context, while Muslims? We don't even get to hold them to their own scriptures in context.

Further, I am unaware of any Bible verse that says that refugees need to be admitted into this country and that making sure they don't starve to death can't be done closer to their own homes.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

...and that's what you call drive by theology.

And convenient abandoning of the Constitution to prop up your beliefs in open borders.

 

[mrjarrell]

[SUP]43 [/SUP]I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

Hypocrites. One and all.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Hypocrites. One and all.

Soooo....we should be a biblically run nation now?

 

[BogWalker]

Hypocrites. One and all.

And for those of us who are not religious?

 

[mrjarrell]

Soooo....we should be a biblically run nation now?

Nope, but it's what many of you espouse and want to live that lifestyle. But now that the cards are on the table the weasels come out.

 

[mrjarrell]

And for those of us who are not religious?

Then you're just scared.

 

[HoughMade]

Hypocrites. One and all.

If a starving guys shows up, I'll feed him. You seem to have a hard time understanding the difference between individual and national responsibilities.

 

[jamil]

Hope you folks like your afterlife on the warm side.

Hypocrites. One and all.

Wow. You're actually advocating for a Theocracy. I personally don't believe in an afterlife, but I'd say the people who do get to define what that is and how it is obtained. And I do know a fair bit about Christianity, at least enough to know that using government as a proxy for one's conscience, is not how one stays cool in the afterlife.

Are you on the side that says the Feds should ignore their enumerated powers in the Constitution and bring in un-vetted people?

Samaritan's Purse is a good charity, so is the Nazarene Fund (the one I donated to) to donate your own money to help these folks out. Or you could jump on a plane and go over there and help them yourself.

I strongly suspect this is just as Hough said. MR J's usual drive-by snark, because you Christians suck so much more than Muslim Jihadists.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Rand Paul Introducing Bill To Stop Refugees From Coming To U.S. | The Daily Caller

 

[BogWalker]

Then you're just scared.

What's our motivation for allowing them in if there is no religious reasoning?

 

[HoughMade]

What's our motivation for allowing them in if there is no religious reasoning?

Contrarians going to contrary.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Nope, but it's what many of you espouse and want to live that lifestyle. But now that the cards are on the table the weasels come out.

How could you possibly know what anybody is doing away from INGO. We may see danger in reckless immigration but that doesn't mean none of us want nothing of a humanitarian nature done.

 

[printcraft]

Contrarians going to contrary.

Worked well for hornadylnl.

 

[jamil]

Then you're just scared.

See my post about responsibility in exercising compassion. At least some people were killed in France because of their government's "compassion". Also take note of the viability of collective compassion. And compassion by government proxy. If your conscience is moved by the plight of others YOU do something about it; from YOUR own resources.

Not wanting a government solution is not the same thing as not having compassion. And I'm sure you understand that compassion isn't unique to religious people.

I'd have thought that you've have realized people here aren't going to be shamed into not doing what they don't think is shameful. But then again, progressives will progress.

 

[Leo]

Hope you folks like your afterlife on the warm side.

While I appreciate your humanitarian concern, and will applaud you for any charitable acts you wish to offer and be credited as "unto the LORD", the argument is not applicable in this case. No where in the scriptures does it support such things as to be applied under government compulsion. As a matter of the fact, things done for each other or as sacrifice to the LORD either under compulsion or with the wrong attitude are openly rejected.

 

[mrjarrell]

What's our motivation for allowing them in if there is no religious reasoning?

We have, for decades and decades welcomed refugees from a variety of conflicts around the globe into this country. Now that the media has managed to instill the proper amount of fear into people, we have folks yelling not to let them in. We let in Vietnamese refugees during the war and after the fall of Saigon. We did not let fear of communist infiltrators colour our decisions. Same for Cambodia and Laos. We let in refugees, muslim and christian alike, during the Balkans conflict. There could easily have been terrorists in those groups, too. We did not let petty fears interfere with that. We have a legacy to uphold and suddenly the fearful masses are yammering for a halt to what we've been doing forever.

 

[jamil]

Nope, but it's what many of you espouse and want to live that lifestyle. But now that the cards are on the table the weasels come out.

Imagine a world view that isn't slathered with venom for religion. That's the world most people live in. It's not really all that bad, you know, reality. You might find it not all that offensive if you didn't look so hard for offense.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I suddenly love this thread.

 

[HoughMade]

So because it has been happening for a long time, it's both wise and right. Gotcha.

Can't wait to hear how this shouldn't be applied to everything the government has been doing for a long time.