75% of Illegal Immigrants to the U.S. Are Christians, and American Christians Want to Kill Them With Razor Wire
What would Jesus do?
Unless you don’t recognize Catholics as Christians, about 75% of the illegal immigrants arriving in the United States are, in fact, Christians. (2/3rds of those illegal Christian immigrants are Catholic and 1/3rd of them are Protestant.) The biggest, harshest and most vocal critics of illegal immigrants also claim to be Christians.
However, I do not consider people who want to kill immigrants with razor wire stretched across the Rio Grande river to be followers of Jesus. That’s simply not what Jesus preached. In fact, Christ passionately preached the exact opposite, in clear and unambiguous language.
What the Hell Is Wrong With People?
I understand that people are worried and fearful of people who they perceive to be “other.” Even though that kind of fear is wrong-headed thinking, it’s a common human failing. What I don’t get is how they can attribute their hatred, fear and bigotry to Jesus.
That whole Good Samaritan parable. That’s all about being kind to strangers, to foreigners, to people who lives different lives and come from different lands. It’s not that hard to understand. A person would need to be…
