Christians I know

[vssmith]

Many of the Christians I know have no sympathy for the children at our borders. Some of the most sympathetic friends profess no religion. Didn't Christ say, "whatsoever you do the least of these, you also do unto to me." If Joseph Mary and Jesus were on our border trying to escape violence, would these people let them in? I fear not.

[hrmjustin]

1. Disgusting is it not. Some of my fellow Christians have no compassion in their hearts for these

children. Not very Christ like on their part.

[rug]

2. Get out more.

[atreides1]

4. Really?

"Get out more"?

[rug]

6. Really. Do you have a more appropriate response to a generalization from personal anecdote?

[LiberalElite]

3. I think that if Christ showed up today

these people would crucify him all over again - too "liberal".

[RKP5637]

7. They would IMO. They are cut out of the same cloth as back then, hatred. Christ today wouldn't

stand a chance. He would be mocked for his beliefs and teachings. We have fallen a long way.

[RKP5637]

5. I run across a lot of supposedly religious people are are just outright scuzzy, participating

in religion as a hate club. Much of religion today is antithetical to anything I learned as a kid about religion. I used to be neutral about religion, but anymore I view much of it as a plague on mankind.

[Brigid]

8. If the people you know have no compassion for those kids . . .

Then they are not obeying Christ. That means they are not Christians. Check out Matthew 7:21-23:

True and False Disciples

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

[onecaliberal]

12. Precisely

Saying they are Christian doesn't make it so any more than standing in a garage makes one a car.

[defacto7]

9. I have to agree,

(and I'm not trying to be sarcastic if you know where I stand on religion). I have also seen many good people reaching out the best they can in my community to support human life in all its beauty and people from all origins. It comes from Christians, non-Christians and non religious, it doesn't matter. It's about compassion and I'll applaud compassion wherever it comes from. And I'll speak strongly against the apathetic and the racist wherever that comes from as well.

[Thinkingabout]

10. I know they would respond differently if it was Jesus at our borders.

There has been some interesting comments, I thought about the story where Moses' mother put him in the Nile because she knew the Egyptians was planning to kill him, she did what she had to do to protect her son. I think perhaps some of the parents would rather give their children up and see them survive than keep them at home where they have a great chance of dying violently. Come on Christians, show what you should have learned, show the compassion of Christians.

[Tanuki]

11. Interesting point, when you ask if Mary and Jesus were on our border fleeing violence.

In the biblical story of the nativity, Mary and Joseph took the newborn Jesus into Egypt for the first few years of his life as a refugee from violence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt

..."Matthew's gospel account
When the Magi came in search of Jesus, they go to Herod the Great in Jerusalem and ask where to find the newborn "King of the Jews". Herod becomes paranoid that the child will threaten his throne, and seeks to kill him (2:1-8). Herod initiates the Massacre of the Innocents in hopes of killing the child (Matthew 2:16-Matthew 2:18). But an angel appears to Joseph and warns Joseph to take Jesus and his mother into Egypt (Matthew 2:13).

Egypt was a logical place to find refuge, as it was outside the dominions of King Herod, but both Egypt and Palestine were part of the Roman Empire, linked by a coastal road known as "the way of the sea",[1] making travel between them easy and relatively safe.

After a time Joseph and the others return from Egypt, the text stating that their enemies having died. Herod is believed to have died in 4 BC, and while Matthew doesn't mention how, the Jewish historian Josephus vividly relates a gory death."...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. They're NOT "Christians", they're classic Archie Bunker WASPS.