I obviously missedouton this in my Catholic upbringing, however it’s clear there’s a “Thou shalt not program empathy to individuals if they ain’t from around these parts” verse someplace in the Bible.
Thanks to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Loonytoonia) and other Republican idea leaders, I’ve justrecently foundout things that weren’t consistedof in my Catholic training.
For beginners, being kind to migrants is bad, and those who aid migrants are mostlikely being managed by Satan.
In a current interview, Greene spoke with Michael Voris of Church Militant, my go-to site for info about “spiritual warfare” and headings like “Marjorie for Pope.” Voris brought up Catholic groups that aid with refugee resettlement, grumbling, in a tone that recommended somebody was waving a liberal child’s diaper under his nose, how they all state things like, “Oh, we have to love the household and all that.”
To which Greene sensibly responded: “Satan is managing the church. The church is not doing its task, and it’s not sticking to the mentors of Christ, and it’s not sticking to what the word of God states we’re expected to do and how we’re expected to live.”
Jesus the rule-breaker
This was news to me. I slightly recall the Bible depicting Jesus, the primary character, as a chap who did a significant quantity of caring and caring for others, especially the bad and downtrodden.
Greene continued: “What they’re doing by stating, ‘Oh, we have to love these individuals and take care of these migrants and love one another, this is caring one another.’ Yes, we are expected to love one another, however their meaning of what love one another suggests, indicates ruining our laws.”
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Again, I’m mostlikely misremembering, however I would swear I recall Jesus being something of a guideline breaker back in the day. Something about “Woe to you, instructors of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!”
Anyhoo, Greene went on to state Catholics who are great to migrants are “pushing a globalist policy on the American individuals” and “perverting what our Constitution states.”
Who’s paying to feed these individuals?
I was about fracture open the Bible and figure out how I missedouton all this things, however then I heard Rep. Steve Chabot, an Ohio Republican, barbecuing Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday.
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Chabot, who is Catholic, appeared rather incensed that America is feeding the migrants who wind up apprehended at the border or transplanted in other parts of the nation.
“The individuals you’re shipping throughout the nation, they’re being fed, ideal?” Chabot asked. “Who’s paying for all that?”
As Mayorkas attempted to discuss that “individuals in migration procedures are not entitled to the exactsame” assistance advantages as U.S. residents, Chabot kept disrupting with “We’re not feeding them?” and “But they’re not being fed? and, onceagain, “We’re not feeding them?”
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Because the congressman is opposed to feeding migrants, I presume he is not one of the Catholics who Greene recommends is regulated by Satan. That’s definitely a relief. But I’m assoonas onceagain puzzled how, with all my years in the pews, I missedouton the deeply held Catholic concept of “Thou shalt not feed individuals if they ain’t from around these parts.”
Punishing the homeless
I lastly turned open the Bible, however then got sidetracked by a heading about a expense recently passed by the Republican-majority Tennessee legislature that will punish individuals for being homeless. The expense, now waitingfor the guv’s signature, makes outdoorcamping on state home a criminalactivity, so a homeless individual sleeping on the side of a roadway or under a bridge might get slapped with a misdemeanor or face a $50 fine. This comes from the exactsame Republican legislators who last year proposed making the Bible the state book.
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A letter to the guv from more than 200 Tennessee faith leaders checkout: “Isaiah 58:7 calls us to ‘provide the bad wanderer with shelter,’ however no district in Tennessee presently has adequate and available realestate and shelter beds for those in requirement. Even when shelters do exist, lotsof cannot fulfill the requirements for entry, so they are left with no other choice however to sleep on public residentialorcommercialproperty while they work towards realestate.”
I wear’t desire to start reports, however if I’m following Marjorie Taylor Greene’s reasoning, it sounds like Satan is managing those faith leaders.
Bible appears focused on being great
When I finally got to paging through the Bible, I couldn’t discover a darn thing comparable to what Greene and Chabot and those Tennessee legislators are taking about. Just a lot of things like this:
“But if anybody has the world’s products and sees his brother in require, yet closes his heart versus him, how does God’s love abide in him?”
“Whoever closes hi