1.) If God doesn’t believe in “borders” then why is the New Jerusalem described as having walls and gates while describing the strangers, aliens, and wicked who are not allowed into the city staying outside the gates?
3.) “Is it proposed that the people of California are to remain quiescent while they are overrun by a flood of immigration of the Mongol race? Are they to be immigrated out of house and home by Chinese? I should think not. It is not supposed that the people of California, in a broad and general sense, have any higher rights than the people of China; but they are in possession of the country of California, and if another people of a different race, of different religion, of different manners, or different traditions, different tastes and sympathies are to come there and the free right to locate there and settle among them, and they have an opportunity of pouring in such an immigration as in a short time will double or treble the population of California, I ask, are the people of California powerless to protect themselves? I do not know that the contingency will ever happen but it may be well to consider it while we are on this point.”
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Loss of love of place (the particular) is our besetting cultural sin. It is our besetting cultural sin because one can not love place without the ability to make distinctions between places. (Here I think of the places that include not only love of locale but love of the people and the gender as places in which we’ve been placed.)