[CS-FSLUG] [OT] The Bible on How to Treat Aliens (or immigrants)

[Yama Ploskonka]

Oh my, legalism...
There were some treaties signed among certain aliens and the (by both
sides) accepted "legal owners" of the land.  All of them but one were
_____ (fill the blank) by those aliens.  Who, having won, now make the
laws - but depend on breaking them every day to clean up after
themselves or to run overseas factories (where very conveniently, other
"laws" apply, regarding such issues as minimal wage, environmental
issues, child labor, use of police brutality...).

There is a Higher Law.
Let's stick to it.

Ye shalt treat others as ye want to be treated, on whatever version you
prefer.

Yama

doc wrote:
>  > Michael Bradley, Jr. wrote:
>> Earlier today I found the following list of Biblical quotations on a 
>> blogsite that I read from time to time.  I don't always agree with the 
>> author on a number of issues, though I frequently appreciate his insight 
>> and clear thinking on a range of church and culture-related subjects. In 
>> any case, with the present heated debate in the USA about reform of the 
>> laws that regulate immigration (especially from south of the border), I 
>> think it is helpful to prayerfully reflect on what the Lord has declared 
>> on the subject in His Holy Word.  Such reflection, I believe, can only 
>> help Christians and Jews on any "side" of the debate.
> 
> 
> He gives every evidence of being a sloppy neo-scholar
> who has indulged himself in the sin of proof-texting.
> 
> Not one of these texts speaks a word to the problem of
> *illegal* aliens.
> 
> This addresses *legal* aliens, people who are *not native*
> to the land in which they are *legally resident*.
> 
> Remember, Jesus never instructed the Centurion to
> cease being a Centurion, He merely instructed him
> to be ethical.
> 
> A Centurion could kill an illegal alien if he caught
> him crossing a border that the Emperor had declared
> off-limits.
>