Dr. Joe Fuiten, a leader amongst conservative evangelicals, referred to secularists as "illegal aliens" during an interview for CNN's "God's Warriors" program. When discussing the concern that evangelicals want to turn America into a theocracy, Fuiten stated that the US was founded on christian values and directed the following quote towards secularists, "You're the illegal alien here, not me." Below is a link to this clip from the show, if you're interested in watching it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP6NHYnSueY
What are your thoughts?
2007-09-01 16:31:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lady Morgana -- I feel your pain!
2007-09-01 17:02:39 · update #1
I think he'll be surprised at the final judgement.
Deu 10:19 "So show your love for the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt."
Godspeed.
2007-09-01 16:38:02 · answer #1 · answered by jimmeisnerjr 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am Jewish. Not a day goes by when I do not read or hear of some foolish Muslim extremist calling for the murder of all Jewish people including me if they could get their hands on me or if they could get a suicide bomber close enough to me.
This evangelical, Dr. Joe Fuiten has never threatened me and I cannot believe that he ever would threaten me. Under those circumstances as far as I am concerned he has a right to his opinion.
The people that concern me are the homicidal maniacs among the Muslims who kill Jewish people every chance they get.
The homicidal maninacs among the Muslims are what we have to worry about. We do not have anything to fear from a conservative evangelical Christian preacher.
The conservative evangelical Christians do not threaten us at all.
2007-09-01 23:51:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what else can you expect from a conservative fundie. "The US has always been a theocracy?" That's how the natives were?
Excuse me but the natives were American indians that were pagans if i remember correctly.
Anyway, I really have no response. That is a very typical fundie quote and I am glad this is a free country where the fundie will never be able to run the country just like they'd like to
2007-09-01 23:38:26 · answer #3 · answered by uz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's unfortunate that so many fundie xtians have their history wrong. They think that just because the people that founded our country happened to be xtians, that our country was founded to be a xtian nation - it was not. It was founded on the principles of freedom - religious freedom, including freedom from religion if you so choose. The founders may have been xtians, but only by default - almost everybody from Europe at that time was xtian. At least they had the foresight to set up the Bill of Rights.
2007-09-01 23:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by asgspifs 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would change that and say, if we are truly Christians we would say that we are the aliens- because God said we are not to be of this world. If Fuiten said this about non-believers in America, shame on him- if he would share the love of Christ, maybe those people would desire to know Christ.
2007-09-02 00:04:59 · answer #5 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He's another idiotic preposterous Fundie. I feel sick to my stomach when I see things like that. The ignorance, the self righteous BS!!! It's the WE ARE RIGHT AND EVERYONE ELSE IS WRONG way of thinking that makes me want to take a syringe full of brain power and inject it directly into an artery in his head in the hopes that he will acquire the ability to THINK!
Doesn't it drive you crazy? It does me.
2007-09-01 23:42:19 · answer #6 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A little mislead. He has built himself a cathedral of knowledge, a baroque structure of ideas and facts, but the foundation doesn't seem too solid.
I don't believe this is what Christianity is about.
2007-09-01 23:37:25 · answer #7 · answered by Atlas 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he obviously meant that since the country was founded on Christian beliefs, which it was, that secularists are the minority, the outsiders and the illegal aliens, much like undocumented Mexicans and other 'aliens' are at this time.
he was using a term that many find offensive, but if you look back in history, it is true.
It is just not so true today as it was then. although 85% of the country deem themselves Christians of some form or another.
2007-09-01 23:37:11 · answer #8 · answered by Koneko 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
It's slightly related... There is some irony in the fact that conservative Christians are usually the ones who fear immigration, given the fact that most immigrants are... CHRISTIAN!
The only thing holding up religiosity in the United States is the influx of Catholics from Latin-America.
2007-09-01 23:35:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I would have pulled out the treaty of tripolli on his b**** a**. I think that either fundies have never heard of it or just simply ignore it. Either way they need to study more history and STFU.
2007-09-02 03:28:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋