There's been a lot said about the current atrocities happening at the U.S.-Mexico border. Most of the responses have been along political lines, but recently, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III decided to insert scripture as a justification for separating families from their children. Now, it's not surprising that Conservatives are using religion to justify their own warped worldview, but if you're going to use the Bible, you might as well use it correctly. Join us as we delve into the scripture in question. Let's look into Romans 13 and see what is actually being said in the text.
I'll try to make sure I don't mention that this particular scripture has been used to justify a whole host of evil deeds over history from slavery to Nazi occupation, but that's not the main point, though it is a notable side point. Our main thrust is to expose the hypocrisy of using scripture to justify the law of the land. It makes no sense and is completely asinine. You have the rule of law that governs the United States of America and you have the holy scriptures that supposedly govern the Kingdom of God. Even for Christian Conservatives, this should be abundantly clear that there are two very different sets of ethics and two very different sets of worldviews at play here. Spoiler alert; they don't blend well together.
It's time for Christians to get their heads out of their asses, blink the shit out of their eyes, and look around and see how horrific and abusive it is to separate families in this manner. It's cruel and evil. Isn't Christianity all about vanquishing evil and doing the morally correct thing? Maybe that was forgotten along the way. This is sick. This is twisted. This is beyond evil.
None of this should be done in the name of Jesus or scripture. Let's just call it what it has become: spineless, hateful, evil, self-serving, and blind to compassion... or otherwise known as the mantra of the Conservative Christian.
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