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So, for example, my faith guides me to care for the foreigner. Are you saying I'm a radical because I actively seek to help undocumented individuals, even if that help includes helping them evade detection?
You'd be at least an accessory to a crime. If your religion asks you to do that, then yeah, radical. Think if all christians did this. This country would go down the tubes. We don't get the advantages that Christians in the NT had. We can't wave a wand and provide unlimited bread and fish for illegals. Those resources come from people who live here.
My faith doesn't make one's citizenship status a prerequisite to helping and serving them. Oh, I wish all Christians would do this, as I do not concern myself with the future of this country. My only concern is God's Kingdom.
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What people never grasp is that the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of American government that other countries should try and model. It's not a Statue of Immigration that says bring all your problems to the US. If other counties overthrow their dictators, lose the socialist governments, lose the theocracies, implement a system of justice and accountability, then they wouldn't have to come here. So that's the solution. Using the US as a model, other countries can help their own people. We simply do not have the resources to directly help all the people in poverty in the world and doing so does not teach other countries to help themselves. In fact it hurts them. If we take the people on other countries that at least have the drive to help themselves by coming here those countries lose people who have that drive.
I'm not asking the US government to help people. I am saying, as a Christian, I don't care what the US government says, especially if it serves as a hindrance to serving the marginalized. Take the laws that are becoming popular around the country re: providing food for the homeless. I've been told by police I have to stop serving people food. Well, good luck with that.
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What are some examples of what you're referring? Were people who helped slaves escape "radical"? I would assume even if you consider them radical, that you'd agree that being a radical is a good thing in their case.
As I said earlier, I'm not talking about the Constitution when it allowed slaves in this country. That was a huge mistake that libs (who used to be pro-slavery) will always make sure we never forget even though the country is trying to move on. Let's not make the same mistake by bringing illegals into the US. I always hear one reason to do so is that they're cheap labor. Guess what... that makes them the next version of slaves that we'll be made to feel guilty about for centuries. No thanks. Keep them out and let's have Americans be responsible for our own prosperity for once.
But that's the thing. A piece of paper that codifies owning a human being is capable of being used to justify all sorts of evil. See the drug war for example. We don't simply get to dismiss one of the most egregious examples of what the Constitution can be used to justify simply because it's horrifically evil and paints us in a bad light. I never make the "cheap labor" argument for serving undocumented people. It has nothing to do w/ free labor. If I turn away the needy, regardless of citizenship status, then I turn away Christ. I refuse to do that, and couldn't care less what the Constitution says (although, again, the Constitution does not limit individual behavior, but governmental behavior).
But hey, I'm not fighting the label "radical". I will wear that with honor. Also, in no way am I advocating a theocracy. I'm simply saying we, as Christians, should act according to our faith and the teachings of Christ, regardless of what the state says.
“Conquer men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of justice to shame by your compassion."
--St Isaac the Syrian
