YOINK!

more like white supremcist christians.

You might be crossing some stories there's the Samaritan woman at the well, which Jesus has a conversation with a Samaritan woman and asks for help getting water from Jacob's Well. There's also the parable of the Good Samaritan, a story jesus created about a Samaritan who stops and helps the person on the road beaten by robbers after 2 jewish people, a priest and a levite, pass the beaten man by, citing ritual cleanliness or thinking the guy is bait for more robbers.

Still your point stands about both being about treating everyone kindly regardless of nation or religion.

In Jesus's parable it's the Good Samaritan who helps out the Jewish man who's been beaten and robbed and left for dead, after two supposedly-pious Jews walk on by. So where they weren't even willing to help their "neighbor," the Samaritan helps his "enemy."

I suppose a nitpicking Evangelical could claim it only means they should have helped the person of their own religion, and that particular Samaritan was "one of the good ones" like the few people who are useful to you and semi-exempt from your general racism. They'd be wrong, of course.

The Catholic Church and several of the mainline Christian denominations (Episcopal, UCC, Presbyterian, plus Unitarian which isn't 100% Christian) have been helpful to immigrants, including undocumented people, in these trying times. Not to say they don't have their own problems, in history and the present.

My daughter will learn the most scary fucker out there is a White Christian Conservative.

then why shouldn't the modern day church help muslim syrians.

A lot of Syrian immigrants in the US are christian...

The average american isn't aware that arabic-speaking christian cultures have existed for well over a thousand years...

Let me know if they start accepting refugees from America, lol.

Churches aren't generally like that here in Australia. Although that is a generalisation.

I could really get behind a community group that practiced Jesus more socialist teachings, even though I'm not into the spiritual aspects.

Churches here do support local communities but it's usually very targeted: we might give you some frozen meals provided that you play along with the spritual & religious stuff.

Christians in the US used to be this way. All the way through the first half of the 20th century the majority of protestants in the US were Socialist or Socialist adjacent as you describe. It was only through the state co-opting their movement and the radicals within it merging with the "America First" crowd around WWII that we got the current Christan nationalist movement..

Samaritans were still isreallites, though. Just not “Jews”- different tribe. And there were some tensions there- but the law requiring hospitality and kindness to each other still applied.

Jesus was perfectly okay with enslaving non-Israelites, however. And also stonning unruly children.

Is it really a surprise to find that christians sometimes turn into assholes?

A lot of the southern evangelicals here lean into the asshole side than they do the “we should be nice” side.

Presumably they know the immigration status of their own kids.

Well because that is taking something from someone they hate. Its the giving they have a problem with.

When you're MAGA, or white Christian nationalist, or part of any exclusive cult, really, then everyone on the outside is an NPC.

Seriously. Dialog among MAGAs and Christian nationalists is dipping into discussions of genocide and evacuations rather than deportation. Liberals are very much on the list.

They've driven off the #IVotedForThis cliff and are now plummeting into the abyss.

I can't wait for supply side Jesus to stop being relevant, but I'm fearful that I'm going to be left waiting anyway.

we gotta get chatGPT to re-write the entire bible like this. Call it the King Trump edition.

To the rest of us, this tells us that xenophobia and animosity against immigrants have been social problems for a very long time.

That doesn't count because I've never been to Egypt

with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind

That's the problem right there.

Some of them will do some impressive backflips to argue that "of there's means Christians only. Because of the "brothers and sisters of mine" bit, it only means they have to be good to their in-group. Nevermind the canonical answer to "who is my neighbor?"

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

No, they would answer, "yeah but those people were brown"

46 GOTO 10

Always eyeing someone suspicious who basically says that they would murder, steal and rape if it wasn't for their religion.

well, you escalated beyond me because I came into the comments to reply "Well, Matt, have you tried fucking all the way off?"

But now that would be lame after your comment. :P lol

I miss 20 years ago when this is how I'd interpret that