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Mass immigration didn’t exist back then and all the similar situations in the Bible are in a negative light or genocidal.
by jalapenoi 8mo ago
Mass immigration didn’t exist back then and all the similar situations in the Bible are in a negative light or genocidal.
- gigatexal 8mo agoStill 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.
- orwin 8mo agoIsn't the samaritain story ultimately just about that?
- IAmBroom 8mo agoPedantic backstory info: Samaritan with a capital "S", because it was an ethnic group of people (IIRC, an unpopular splinter sect of Judaism).
- mcphage 8mo ago> Mass immigration didn’t exist back then What? No.
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoWhat would the main guy in the book say tho?
- jalapenoi 8mo agoIt’s quite the leap from telling individuals to be hospitable to travelers to supporting mass immigration as a national policy.
- Sabinus 8mo agoNo, 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.
- cosmicgadget 8mo agoOh, 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
- linksnapzz 8mo agoI 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!”.
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