There is an enormous difference between offering a weary traveler hospitality versus welcoming a foreigner to dwell among you indefinitely. Frequently the Old Testament commends violence to purge their ranks and avoid contaminating the people with foreigners. My favorite reply to this argument is to offer to require hospitality to sojourners as commanded in the OT as long as we can also bring back the OT practice of stoning adulterers and homosexuals.
Rene Girard stated that liberal Christianity was a stepping stone on the path to atheism. He also prophesied that Christianity would be assailed from the left for being insufficiently compassionate. He's 2/2.
A solution would be to allow the illegal immigrants to obtain a green card to work and pay taxes but not to receive any social benefits such as welfare, unemployment or social security.
They should not get the benefit of any tax deductions either.
And property tax rates should be much higher for foreigners and foreign entities than for citizens. (In ancient Israel, farmland could not be sold to foreigners at all. Only rented.)
Great essay and spot-on analysis. Anytime the Left starts posing as fundamentalist Bible-thumpers, you know they’re trying to get over on you. I’ll take them to be citing the Bible in good faith when they start applying that same literal interpretation to the passages that directly address LGBTQ perversions or usurious banksterism.
There is an enormous difference between offering a weary traveler hospitality versus welcoming a foreigner to dwell among you indefinitely. Frequently the Old Testament commends violence to purge their ranks and avoid contaminating the people with foreigners. My favorite reply to this argument is to offer to require hospitality to sojourners as commanded in the OT as long as we can also bring back the OT practice of stoning adulterers and homosexuals.
I always love reading your work, Theophilus. Thanks for another great series of insights.
Hospitality involved much more than the shallow, flippant sense of “being nice” that drives the thinking of most modern expositors.
This is all morality is for most people. Conflict of any sort is always wrong. It's an extraordinarily feminine way of thinking.
Conflict is intensely female. Both sexes engage equally ferociously in the struggle for power and resources.
Rene Girard stated that liberal Christianity was a stepping stone on the path to atheism. He also prophesied that Christianity would be assailed from the left for being insufficiently compassionate. He's 2/2.
it's really high quality , did you think of sending it to Unz ? I see a lot of new writers on his website
The indomitable quest for power eats consistency for breakfast 😏
A solution would be to allow the illegal immigrants to obtain a green card to work and pay taxes but not to receive any social benefits such as welfare, unemployment or social security.
A better solution would be to authorize lethal force on the border.
They should not get the benefit of any tax deductions either.
And property tax rates should be much higher for foreigners and foreign entities than for citizens. (In ancient Israel, farmland could not be sold to foreigners at all. Only rented.)
Imagine if our Western governments valued the well-being of their nation's own citizens like that!
Then there is this: Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.
We should follow the laws of the land, but when those who are supposed to regulate the laws don't follow them, what does that say about us?
1) Our current administration doesn't protect our borders, which makes us look weak.
2) Our current administration considers it more important for other countries to have borders.
3) Our current government would rather keep wages low than help its people to prosper.
4) By bringing illegal immigrants, she can keep wages low and secure for herself a new voting base that is dependent upon her.
5) She does not require the new immigrants to assimilate to the general way of doing things, nor does she make them follow the laws of the land.
Great essay and spot-on analysis. Anytime the Left starts posing as fundamentalist Bible-thumpers, you know they’re trying to get over on you. I’ll take them to be citing the Bible in good faith when they start applying that same literal interpretation to the passages that directly address LGBTQ perversions or usurious banksterism.