You are the poster who invoked your harsh judgment of Christians into this thread.
I do not believe that one is following Christian teachings when they accept or support the act of kidnapping children from their parents for a minor crime such as trespassing.
I believe people who say they are following Christ's teachings but also support Trump's barbaric policies are hypocrites.
It's that simple.
Hence my question is relevant. Are you a Christian? If you were familiar at all with the Bible though you would know Christians are commanded to obey their elected leaders;
Romans 13:1-14
A president who is following through with his legal obligation to enforce immigration law is simply doing their job. He isn't following a religious creed. He is doing his job. I don't know why you have decided that it is
hate to expect our elected to do their jobs....enforce immigration law. Furthermore, your decision as to who is acting or not acting Christian doesn't strengthen your original point (post #265), that "Trump supporters prove they are not big believers in Christianity." Either one is for the enforcement of the laws of the land or they're not. Therefore, if one follows the Bible they would know that those who don't obey their country's laws are not acting Christian.
The President has a legal obligation to enforce the law. The President has no obligation to be intentionally cruel.
There are two aspects of our law that deal with immigration. The DOJ can choose to enforce immigration law through civil or criminal means. Prior to the Trump administration, the federal government processed the vast majority of these violations through civil means. This allowed them to quickly process the violators and also keep families intact. It was the conscious decision to process the crossings as criminal violations, with the intention of terrorizing the immigrant families through forced separation, and without any intention to reunite these families, that is evil and not Christian-like. Also, the federal government could have processed these immigrants criminally and also kept the families intact. There was nothing in our law that prevented the federal government from doing that. Nor was there anything that prevented Congress from fixing any of the alleged obstacles via legislative means. And what eventually happened? The judicial branch did intervene and FORCE the Trump administration to not be so cruel:
A federal judge found late Wednesday the government’s practice of separating immigrant parents and their minor children who come to the U.S. seeking asylum potentially violates the families’ due process rights.
www.courthousenews.com
So this argument you are putting forward is hogwash. There is nothing Christian about letting a bad man do bad things in the name of our government, especially when there are legal, legislative, and political remedies to prevent a bad man from doing bad things.
The strategy that the Trump administration chose was a CHOICE they made, it was not an obligatory action.
This argument you are putting forward is nothing more than an excuse to do nothing, to say nothing, and to continue lending to support to an evil man.
And it's unconscionable.
And you do not support Trump because of Roman 13:1-14 or any other aspect of the bible.
You support Trump because you hate immigrants who speak Spanish and have darker skin than you.
That's why you support kidnapping their children.
Everything I was taught tells me that Jesus teaches us we can
choose to forgive them, that we can
choose to love them, and we can
choose to allow them to keep their families together.
