Luke 10:27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Here we find the primary reason why the Europeans went on Crusade against the Muslims. The Crusaders believed that Christ was being Crucified again in the persecution of His faithful and in the defilement of His sanctuaries by the Muslim hordes. It was a matter of love for the persecuted pilgrims and a love for God that sent them on Crusade to defend Christendom from the attack of the Muslims. The Crusades, thus, were not offensive wars but wars to defend Islam’s assault upon Christendom.
In the same way, the advocacy of closing America’s borders to the alien and the stranger is advocacy rooted and grounded in love for one’s neighbor. Many of those streaming over the borders are doing so as an invading army as Ann Corcoran has demonstrated on her Refugee Resettlement Watch website. Of course, the flooding of the American labor market with cheap labor by way of illegal immigrants and so-called refugees is a funny way to “love your next-door neighbor” who can’t find a job. The question has to be asked; “How can you love your neighbor as yourself if you have to destroy yourself and your neighbor in the process?”
The number of ministers who get it wrong on immigration, civil rights, theology, eschatology, history, etc. reminds me of the old joke about bad lawyers – its the 98% that give the good ones a bad name.
