IMMIGRATION AND FAITH

If some of the politicians who proudly espouse their religious faith actually looked to their faith to help guide them on immigration policy, how different things might be today. A new book on immigration and the Christian faith discusses what the Old and New Testaments have to say on the issue.  The book is Christians at the Border by M. Daniel Carroll.

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[George Chell]

"We need to import more religious workers on religious visas to pray goodness and morals into the politicians. Praise Jeebus! Amen!"

You are making sense!!

[JarJar]

We need to import more religious workers on religious visas to pray goodness and morals into the politicians. Praise Jeebus! Amen!

[George Chell]

And ask the GOP to demonize immigrants, they will gain more voters...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/us/politics/05flip.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[George Chell]

Perhaps the US does need foreign missionaries to convert our heathens and pagans...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/04/segregated.sundays/

"Woo's mother is white, and his father is part Chinese. He attended an all-black high school growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, where he still remembers what it was like to be a minority.

"Everyone understands the rules, the lingo, the mind-set -- except you," he says. "It was invaluable, but I didn't know it at the time."

When he became pastor of Wilcrest in 1992, he was determined to shield his church members from such an experience. But an exodus of whites, commonly referred to as "white flight" was already taking place in the neighborhood and the church.

Membership fell to about 200 people. At least one church member suggested that Woo could change the church's fortunes by adding a "d" to his last name.

"The fear there was people would think I was Chinese," he says. "There would be a flood of all these Asians coming in, and what would we do then?""

[George Chell]

What the so-called Christian Republicans in the House Immigration Reform Caucus is not very Christian, bordering on pagan white skin worship..particularly the southern Representatives, Marsha Blackburn, Nathan Deal and Lynn Westmoreland..these guys are far worse than Jesse Helms ever was. I have no problem in people making arguments about denying citizenship to the so called anchor babies as long as they dont call themselves Christian. I particularly have major issues with conservative Republicans who are against abortion and want to save the life of an unborn child but also want to punish the children for the sins of their parents. Perhaps these folks who include Tancredo, Deal, Blackburn and Musgrave are probably only referring to white babies when they say that unborn babies should be saved. Disgusting!! And they call themselves born-again Christians...perhaps born again white skin worshipping pagans!