Still the man they claim to follow welcomed the outsider. And some sects don’t even care or consider much of the Old Testament as much as they emphasize the New.
What would the main guy in the book say tho?
It’s quite the leap from telling individuals to be hospitable to travelers to supporting mass immigration as a national policy.
No, it's not a leap it's a core prescription of Christian practice. The Parable of the Good Samaritan illustrates this. You are to treat your neighbours well, and your neighbours are anyone in need of your mercy.
Does that include letting them live in our country illegally while they live off of welfare payments?
Probably, yeah. Jesus was a radical and the USA is rich. But with that being said, I'm not the one advocating for a Christian nation.
Oh, is that all he said about how you should treat others? You're right, he'd probably advocate for strong territorial integrity and not at all be concerned with poverty and hunger. Jesus was the first libertarian after all.
Lmao
I believe that in Acts, His followers were told to “go out into all nations”, not “invite all nations back here to Roman Judea, the Romans will be totally cool with that!”.
Isn't the samaritain story ultimately just about that?
Pedantic backstory info: Samaritan with a capital "S", because it was an ethnic group of people (IIRC, an unpopular splinter sect of Judaism).