Do you think that being intolerant with illegals makes you a bad christian?
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Yes i believ eit does. Jesus taught us to love our neighbors and Mexico is definently our neighbor. He taught us to wash the feet of lepers and be kind to prostitutes. He taught us to turn the other cheek to our enemies and to love them as much as our brothers.\n\nJesus would be dissapointed at our treatment of illegal aliens.
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Generally American christians and even jews are ok .My housemates are anyway , we celebrate everything. I'm a muslim. It's just that people like ASSBANDIT are giving the country and the religion a bad name. And ASSBANDIT is not even and American.he just love giving christianity a bad name
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I agree with the Bad Liberal, my Christian friends (most of them) are much better behaved, and so are my atheist friends, far better behaved.  But that is the internet for you.  Think about this, when you are talking to someone face to face, you have no safety, when you are talking on the phone, you are a little braver, get on the internet and you are ten feet tall and bulletproof.  Some people are just ignorant and rude....God forgive me...screw them if they are not nice.
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Illegals should not be allowed to stay.  I do not know anything about the bible but I do know about taxes, our welfare system, our criminal justice system, lack of jobs, abuse of our social services  and that people in this country need to speak our English language.  They should not be allowed to stay, they certainly should not have special treatment.
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God has regularly destroyed nations . and the bible is full of stories of peoples who protected their borders.their gates ,\n\n\n\nIn chapter 13 of the apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans, the English translation reads, "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed..." (Romans 13:1-2). Clearly, this is advice to Christians to follow the laws of their nation and to respect the laws of other nations.\n\nThis is not to say that illegal immigrants should be treated badly.\n\n\n\nThere are ideas implied in Paul's other writings that also shed light on the contemporary issue of illegal immigration. In his Letter to Philemon, Paul address the issue of what is to be done about a runaway slave. In short, Paul sends back the runaway slave, Onesimus, and encourages his master, Philemon, to accept and forgive him. This may seem an unusual act by Paul to those who know that under Roman law, the master had absolute authority over the life and person of the slave.\n\nAlthough illegal immigrants are not slaves the way Onesimus was a slave in the apostle Paul's time, we can see illegal immigrants today as persons running away from their moral obligations to improve their own country and not run down ours. If that is the case, then it is certainly a moral and Christian thing to encourage illegal immigrants to return home and make life better in their own country.\n\nMany times in the Bible, God allowed the Israelites to go to war rather than come under the rulership of an evil dictator\n\nagain This is not to say that illegal immigrants should be treated badly.\nbut they must help themselves too.\nThe Bible never support people tresspassing into others lands in an inappropriate manner. The Bible never supported open borders for the Bible says that boundaries were ordained of God. It was the Tower of Babel that promoted an open border system. \n\nThe following link blows her( Hillary's) arguments out of the water at:\n\nhttp://www.covenantnews.com/baldwin060331.htm
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"Liberals"? Let's assume that all Christians are Conservatives: then yes.\n\nHowever, no, not all feel that their faith is being threatened by these things: only the close-minded and unoriginal ones.\n\nQuestions like this bug me out. The girl who put "cuz they believe stupid things!" is a complete twat, and the guy below me...look, don't pray for any body's salvation except your own.
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A big fall! Look at the replies you got -excuse makers. \n Funny how no one wants to hear that-it is even a bigger issue than immigration.\n God forbid-you point out their sin-most will turn it back and say all do. No morals-no responsibility.\n Personally lets kick the unmoral out and the excuse makers. We can let others in than we would have plenty of room. And yes there is a difference between those who sin and those who make a 'practice' out of it. And yes sin has measures-all through out the bible. And excuse makers are practicer of it. Now they will go and pick the parts they like out. Rather than the whole book.\n\n\nLook out morals is more dangerous subject than Illegal immigrants.
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I have had a bad relationship with christians\n\nI was born Jewish\n\nOn the first day of school i ever had, a classmate told me i killed god.  I remember crying and running to my mother.  I didnt blame christianity for that though, i though the kid was just mean....\n\nbut when i got older i started seeing christians different.  I saw them as the embodiment of hate.  I mean, the whole basis of their bible is that anyone who isn't christian is a sinner and must be converted.  \n\nThroughout history, Christians have murdered millions in the name of Jesus:\n\n1. The slaughter of those who believed in roman gods when christianity took over rome.\n2. The massacre of jews in the dark ages\n3. The torture of jews in the inquisition\n4.  The brutal murders of jews and muslims in the crusades\n5.  The murder of 6 million jews in the holocaust\n6.  The bombing of abortions clinics.\n7.  the murder of homosexuals\n\nI am now an atheist and am very opposed to christian extremism
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I know, and that saddens me.\n\nI think the reason why some 'Christians' act so rude is because they think they have the right to act that way... ya know, 'cause they have 'God on their side,' or whatever.\n\nI try to be open-minded about every religion, but because of how I've seen many Christians behave, I tense up a bit whenever someone tells me that they are a Christian.
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Probably! To the bible everything is wrong if your not a true believer and follow everyone of there stupid rules!\n\nP.S. don't care if ya'll hate the answer! Because that's what i've learned trying to be friends with christians! See how far it got me?
1090032
Yes. Some people believe that when someone openly says they are a Christian, it means you are judgemental of those who aren't.
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sometimes yes.\nI am a full out Born Again, Bible Believing, Southern Bapt., Christian.  \nAnd there are times when i hang my head low over the actions and speech of Christians.  \nWe are targets and some dont realize how much they hurt.
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You may dislike me all you want for being an atheist. That only reveals your own lack in character. \n\nI speak out against beliefs (not people) that result in the believer violating the rights of others, or harming the progress of humanity. I do not, however, dislike anyone until I know them.
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The question is first, do americains hate aliens, illegal or not.\n\nRemember, each country that mistreats it's immigrants, legal or illegal, sooner or later encourages them (the immigrants) towards hostile actions in that country.\n\nIn today's world, tolerence and understanding is important but of course, at one point one cannot just let everyone in.\n\nI would say that you get what you give..legal or illegal!
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I am told by gays that it is discrimination but it's not.  They think we hate them.  I don't know any Christian that hates them.  We believe the bible and the bible says they're life style is wrong, that no homosexual will inherit eternal life.  We all have our own sins we have to bring before the Lord.  It's no worse than any other sin.  But how can God forgive them of it and heal them if they insist it isn't sin?  If your attitude is loving even though you don't accept what they do, then you are right with God.  The rest isn't yours to deal with,  it's theirs.  God bless you for having such a kind heart.
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It is really sad to see how much intolerance there is in America.  I am embarrassed at some of the responses people give to questions like this.  In my life I have spent time around white, black, Asian, Indian and Mexican people.  I have met people on welfare, people who drive ugly cars, people who beat their kids, molesters, drug users etc.  I have also met hard workers, loving parents, clean cut, well mannered people from every background.  Reading some of these answers made me think.  I tried to think of the dirtiest, low lives that I knew of and I was surprised to find that they all happened to be white or born here.  The houses on my street that have immaculate yards and hardest workers living in them happen to be Hispanic families. Hatred is an ugly thing.  Prejudice is also ugly.  Ignorance is dangerous.  Jesus loves us all no matter what color we are...even when we judge and put down and hate, God forgives us.  Laws are funny things.  They change constantly.  Sometimes laws are fair and right.  Sometimes they are unjust and need to be adapted.  I believe there will always be hatred, intolerance and stupidity.  But I know that there are also people here that have love, understanding, fairness and God in their hearts.  Knowing that helps.
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Not all Americans and Christians are bad. It's just the ones running the country (into the ground) and the fake Christians who support the biggest Pretender ever the rule the White House (George Bush, Jr.)\n\nThey will know we are Christians by our love CANNOT apply to Bush or the Right Wing Christians who are backing up Bush. The GOP (Grand Overclass Party) cuts spending for the poor and powerless while they give our tax dollars to the rich and powerful. \n\nAny Christian or Jew or Muslim that is supporting Bush is actually supporting Evil and Hate and therefore are not true to their faith. If you know anything about these three major world religions you will find that tolerance, forgivness, and love are practiced by TRUE followers of God. \n\nYou don't start a unjust war in Iraq for oil. This war is about money and power not about freedom for all and the safety of the US. May God forgive us all and have mercy upon those are evil doers like George Bush.