Hey, Christians! >>>/leftypol/ here.
We've seen a lot of threads opened on the refugee crisis asking us what we believe needs to be done. I'd like to return the favor, with a Zizek quote on the question of Christianity - immigration:
>And does not the same hold also for the recent defenders of Europe against the “immigrant threat”? In their fervor to protect the Judeo- Christian legacy, the new zealots are ready to forsake the true heart of the Christian legacy: each individual has an immediate access to universality (of the Holy Spirit, or, today, of human rights and freedoms); I can participate in this universal dimension directly, irrespective of my special place within the global social order. Do not Christs “scandalous” words from Luke point in the direction of such a universality, which ignores every social hierarchy? “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes even his own life—he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26)? Family relations stand here for any particular ethnic or hierarchical social bond that determines our place in the global Order of Things. The “hatred” enjoined by Christ is therefore not the opposite of Christian love, but its direct expression: it is love itself that enjoins us to dissociate ourselves from the organic community into which we were born; or, as Saint Paul put it, for a Christian there are neither men nor women, neither Jews nor Greeks. No wonder that, for those fully identified with a particular way of life, the appearance of Christ was seen as either a ridiculous joke or a traumatic scandal.
>source: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
Here's Zizek propositions on the current crises: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n18/slavoj-zizek/the-non-existence-of-norway
So what would you guys propose?