Why We Are Going to Hell – Part 3,995
Conservative Protestants Condone Law-Breaking
Has the Christian Church Gone Crazy???
by
Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.
thelastcrusade.org
Evangelical Christians this week offered the Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and members of the U.S. Senate Immigration Reform Committee their ringing endorsement of full amnesty for the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens within the country.
Open borders and high immigration, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) proclaimed, increases membership in evangelical churches and is good for the economy.
Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, said there was no dissent among the members of his organization in ratifying a pro-amnesty resolution.
He testified that the Gospel requires that Christians be willing to forgive illegal aliens for breaking existing immigration laws and statutes.
Rev. Anderson added: “We believe that undocumented immigrants who have otherwise been law abiding members of our communities should be offered the opportunity to pay any taxes or penalties owed, and over time earn the right to become U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The process of redemption and restitution is core to Christian beliefs, as we were all once lost and redeemed through love of Jesus Christ.”
The NAE describes itself as “. . . a network of 40 denominations comprising more than 45,000 local churches located in every congressional district and every state.”
Most of the member denominations uphold a literal interpretation of scripture and intransigent support for traditional values. The list of includes:
Anglican Mission in America
Assemblies of God
Brethren in Christ Church
Christian Reformed Church in North America
Church of God
Church of the Nazarene
Churches of Christ In Christian Union
Conservative Lutheran Association
Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches
Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Evangelical Free Church of America
Fellowship of Evangelical Churches
Free Methodist Church of North America
General Association of General Baptist
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies
International Pentecostal Church of Christ
International Pentecostal Holiness Church
Presbyterian Church in America
Primitive Methodist Church USA
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
The Brethren Church
The Christian & Missionary Alliance
The Evangelical Church
The Salvation Army
The Vineyard, USA
Transformation Ministries
United Brethren in Christ
US Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches
The Wesleyan Church Corporation
The position of the NAE remains incomprehensible to many conservative Christian conservatives, including Rev. Judith Schmitt of Puritan Congregation Church in Scranton, PA.
“It’s outrageous for any Christian or Christian organization to condone law-breaking,” Rev. Schmitt said. “Forgiveness is central to the Christian doctrine but approval and reward of wrong-doing is not.”
Others, including conservative writer Patrick J. Buchanan, wonder why the endorsement of plans to grant full amnesty fails to create national outrage. He points out that while 25 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, “8.5 million U.S. jobs are held by illegal aliens who broke into the country or overstayed their visas.”
Senator Schumer and other advocates for amnesty argue that illegals take jobs that Americans are unwilling to accept.
This argument has been laid to rest by a raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants which rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the workforce. The raid failed to create any employment problems for Swift. In a matter of weeks, the plants were operating at full force – - manned by hundreds of native-born Americans who were delighted to take the jobs.
Says Vanderbilt University Professor Carol Swain, “Whenever there’s an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do these jobs Americans will supposedly not do.”
5 comments:
The above are not 'conservative' Christian organizations--churches....
This is one of the first times that I do not agree w/ Paul Williams' take...
EV Free and The Vineyard are pretty conservative from what I know, CS. What do you know? Maybe you know something I don't.
In fact, I was in one EV Free church where they Pledged Allegiance to the Christian flag, which I thought was offensive. Seems pretty hardline Conservative to me. But, it would explain why they might believe they can flout our nations laws.
Midnight Rider,
This despite the fact that many of them may really Jihadists who would love nothing more than to kill or enslave those evangelicals and Pentecostals. Not to mention a dozen other reasons.
ya know, I was just texting #2 about religion...
Senator Schumer and other advocates for amnesty argue that illegals take jobs that Americans are unwilling to accept.
we are told that in my country, too. fact is, illegal immigrants are working like slaves for a penny and sometimes don´t even get their salaries, have any rights of whatsoever. who´s profiting from this situation - the citizens are unemployed and illegal immigrants are working under sub-human conditions?
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