Christian Radio Commentator: Bible Supports Concept of Secure Borders

[Bluebear]

(AgapePress) - A Christian business consultant and writer in the Phoenix area has recently published some commentaries that deal with what the Bible says about illegal immigration and a nation's response to that. He says he has found in his study and research that it isn't just about compassion.

Steve Marr's online commentaries are called "Business Proverbs." His syndicated radio program by the same name is heard on 1,000 radio outlets worldwide. According to Marr, the Bible supports the idea that nations have the right and responsibility to secure their borders.

Marr says many Christians, when it comes to the issue of illegal immigration, argue that compassion should rule the day because those immigrants have come simply seeking a better life. But the former president and CEO of a large import-export firm says even illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. for years and have built otherwise productive lives are still illegal aliens.

"To me it's an issue of justice," Marr shares. "And if you break a law -- whether it's a drug law, whether it's an immigration law or whether it's robbing a bank -- if you get caught, whether it's in a day, a year or ten years, I think justice has to run it's course."

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/162006g.asp


http://www.businessproverbs.org/articles/archives/read.php?a=161

[Doohickie]

1. You can support

a lot of stuff using Bible versus (link NSFW).

[wake.up.america]

2. Wow!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Actually this thread quotes the bible as saying just the opposite.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1451213


Leviticus 19:33-34 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

33 " 'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. 34 The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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Brought to you by the same book Christians cite (Leviticus) that says being gay is an abomination.

[Erika]

6. I doubt if Christ deemed a brown skinned child should die

because he/she was born in the wrong nation. Then, there is Iraq. Kayne West said W didn't like Black people, maybe Brown people should be added.

Christ said "Suffer ye not the little ones". I guess W interprets that to mean unless they are white. The unnecessary hits on the Iraqi people and children have been horrible. An Iraqi 13 year old boy had his arms blown off in the W's shock and awe campaign.

Shock and awe against a third rate country with a fifth rate military, but W pulled it off. They had oil.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. All the children around Jesus at the time were brown skinned...

[nealmhughes]

4. "Biblical" principles were used to justify slavery, absolute monarchy,

the Crusades, pogroms, ad infin.
There is no such thing as a "Biblical principle." The Bible is a vast amalgalm of Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek texts that have been codified, actually, in quite recent times, in comparison to the time span which the texts cover.
One can cherry pick the Bible and "prove" anything one wishes.
Why is it that Ayn Rand and the Bible seem to go so well together, according to modern conservatives? Aren't they antitheses?
One funny comment that once was relevant on describing European political parties was that, "National" in a title meant antisemitic, "Democratic" meant totalitarian, and "Christian" meant capitalist.
I swear, if I were not busy with my garden I would start a "Biblical" product line of hygiene products (made in China and India) and use phrases out of the Bible for their names. I can just imagine some examples: "Whiter than Snow" laundry detergent, available in myrrh, frankencense flavors, as well as the new "Mount Zion Zesty Lemon".

[Doohickie]

5. By the way:

In the link I posted upstream, I think there is about the same level of biblical support for the things suggested in the link as for a lot of the positions conservatives take: one or two verses, taken out of context, to support their twisted view of godliness and piety.

[DainBramaged]

7. And it says that Jesus evicted the money changers from the Temple

Too bad he isn't around to clean up after these pigs today.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Bringing to mind the STUPIDEST quote ever from the Religious Right...

It was sometime in the early '80s, and came from Rob Scribner, a former football player (of course) who was then a spokesman for the California branch of the Moral Majority. Speaking in support of the death penalty (how very Christian of him) he came up with the following gem, which I absolutely am not making up:

"It's a Biblical principle. I mean, Jesus dying on the Cross is an example of capital punishment."

:wow:

Gee, Rob, it's nice to know what many of us already suspected -- had you and your Moral Majority buddies been there in Jerusalem that Passover, which position they would have taken on the Crucifixion! :crazy: