So called 'Christian right"..what would Jesus say ?

Question

All you Xian right wingers out there...

How would jesus feel about seperating familes and turning away people who are only trying to feed their families ?

Will all the right wing xenophobes burn in hell for their sin of hate and lack of compassion ?
(if there is one, I think they might)

Answer 1

no, cuz there is no hell

Answer 2

I'm a Christian, and I'm no fan of the Religious Right, either. I think Jesus would say the same thing to the worst of the Religious Right leaders as he did to the Pharisees and priests and doctors of the Law.

However, I wish you'd been more specific in your accusations. What did you mean in particular by "separating families and turning away people who are only trying to feed their families"?

Answer 3

I gather you are trying to frame the question to suggest what you feel is the answer. However, I'll give you the answer from my perspective.

You seem to suggest that opposition to the Immigration Bill is xenophobia. I volunteered as a translator for the SAWII program--in fact, my undergraduate degree is in Spanish and I specialized in South America. My advanced degrees are in Celtic studies. I have lived abroad, and have extensive contacts and friendships around the world. I have also worked with people seeking asylum and with church sanctuary movements. I have been an English as a Second Language instructor who worked primarily with illegal immigrants. I have worked with legal immigrants such as the Bantu and Cambodians.......yet I opposed the immigration bill.

The immigration bill was an amnesty bill--amnesty for business who knowingly employeed illegal immigrants, often at substandard wages and in substandard conditions. Not only did the provide amnesty for the businesses, while requiring fines and fees from the workers, but it was built on the underlying premise that the US economy required a sub-class of underpaid and overworked immigrants. We were repeatedly warned that our economy needs those workers, to provide our food, our construction etc. Yet needing those underpaid, overworked immigrants, we were going to legalize them--without addressing the core "need" for those workers. In other words because we "need" workers to work long hours for less then minimum wage, we were going to turn these workers into workers who make minimum wage and work acceptable hours.

So, then how is that "need" going to be filled? Were we to believe suddenly these businesses were going to have the extra funds to pay legal wages, or were they going to have even *more* people come to the US to work in substandard conditions for substandard wages.

And what exactly is the social and cultural impact to the sending countries of losing people of working age in vast numbers to the US? How will these countries ever start climbing the industrial ladder if their work force is leaving to flow into another country? And what is the cost to these people to have to leave home merely to feed their families--particularly when many of these folks come from areas where the family unit is an extended family unit, not the nuclear family of the US? Unlike what we were being lead to believe in the debate, lots of these folks aren't coming to be "Americans". Many of these people have homes---as indicated by the flags being waived at various rallies.

So in answer to your question, I do think it is terrible that people are forced to leave their homes and families to come to the US to live in near slave conditions. I do think its terrible that people are forced to live on wages that are far below what is deemed a "livable" wage. But nothing in the bill would have changed this--instead it would have continued to allow employers to exploit yet another wave of illegal immigrants. Nor were there any assurances that the border would be adequately closed---a border on which people die every year trying to cross....a border where people are locked in the back of trucks and left to die in the heat of the desert.

Answer 4

the christian/religious right is ALWAYS wrong;

christians created hell - so shall they go there, to burn in their own hell;

Here's the simply Solution for religion:


Eliminate religion from Your Life, A.S.A.P.;

Freedom of religion is Freedom FROM religion; religion is Spiritual fraud;

Universal Truth eliminated religion from Spirituality a long time ago;


Accomplish this:

Create a Private, Personal, Direct, Divine Relationship with Our Creator and save Your Soul from religion's and atheist's beliefs and start Your journey back home, to Heaven.

<<<<<<< UnConditional Love is the only answer >>>>>>>

Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.

Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!

Answer 5

Jesus would turn them away, as no problem is ever solved by retreat.

Answer 6

Thanks for the complement. Now tell us what YOU have done for anyone else, or are YOU the one that's looking for a handout?

Answer 7

Source please.