>>534965
presumably politically you lean right wing and hold traditional Christian values and you identify with v poor qualitypic related. If so, surely you're being hugely inconsistent here. If you are a lefty and disagree with pic related then you're seemingly not being consistent either.
I agree with parts of your post, but I don't think it's silly to imply some people aren't Christian when, in light of certain verses of scripture, said professing Christian blatantly goes against said scriptures. Title of thread is about those who hate migrants. Saying they should stay in their own country is not necessarily hating them, there's no need to conflate the two. The question is how do you treat the people, migrant or non-migrant, in front of you, on your doorstep, in your community, once they're physically there. Do you love them? Or do you hate them?
>>534962
>>534977
Distinction has to be made between economic migrants, legal and illegal, and refugees. What happens on the macro scale is for the government to deal with at national immigration policy level. Christians aren't not allowed to have an opinion on how they think government should be dealing with these issues. However we as individuals in most circumstances are likely to never be in the position to determine whether one person who claims to be a refugee, or a legal immigrant, is genuine or not. Only God sees men's hearts. Therefore once they're here, if, as far as we can see, giving them the benefit of doubt, they're law-of-the-land abiding individuals (see Leviticus quote >>534969), then we should love them, evangelise them, serve them, help them to fit in, engage them to show them any of the errors of any of their ways we disagree with to help them fit in and rebuke them when called for. Most crucially, we need to pray for them - in other words, treat them as we should be treating any other human being who are right in front of us.
>inb4/leftypol/getoutREEEEEEEEE
Neither left nor right at this stage tbqh,
>>534982
>book of Leviticus, part of the Torah, the Old Covenant
>"stranger" here applies to Christians
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>inb4theoldisinthenewconcealsedthenewintheoldrevealed
Sure I get it, but this isn't one of those instances, clearly
I was aware that this was generally considered the case with the use of "brother" but I am very skeptical this is the case with "poor" and "stranger." Next time I read 1 Corinthians I am going to bear this in mind, but until then, feel free to elaborate or provide links that back this up. Do you really think the parable of the good samaritan isn't supposed to embody the service we're called to provide to strangers in need? If not what is the meaning of the parable, according to your understanding? My gut feeling is that the overwhelming majority of Christendom would disagree with you but I'm open to being shown wrong if that's the case.
>>534969
>The "stranger" among you is always a Christian.