"As you have done to the least of these, you have done to me."

[The Blue Flower]

Both the old and new testaments couldn't be clearer about how to treat the stranger and the vulnerable. At some point, the rot of cruelty, insanity, and immorality will catch up to those who have created and those who have carried out these policies.

[atreides1]

1. You know what?

When you believe that God will forgive you...for anything...at anytime...what do you need to worry about!?

Those who claim to be followers of Christ, figure that no matter what they do...they will always have that "safety net", of God's forgiveness...so they continue to support Trump and his policies...in the belief that no matter how cruel, immoral, or insane...they'll still be able to get into Heaven!

[3catwoman3]

3. Call it the "Get Out Of Hell Free" Card.

What about the “Go and sin no more” exhortation?

A classmate of mine in nursing school, back in the early 1970s, was the only Jewish student in my class of 67 people. She taught me a lot about her faith. One of the things I have long remembered is that one has to seek forgiveness from those you have wronged, rather than the easy out of God’s forgiveness.

[Girard442]

2. I would hope so.

The Evangelicals of the 1930’s didn’t seem to get much grief for cozying up to Hitler before WWII.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. "Now go and strike Amalek...

...and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."

- 1 Sam 15:1-3

Yeah, couldn't be clearer...

[The Blue Flower]

5. I can't argue with the horrors in some parts of the Bible

The books that make it up are all products of their cultures and times. There are many contradictions, and I refer to these when so-called Christians argue that abortion is a sin. But that doesn't negate the exhortation we read every Passover that we once were also strangers in a strange land and must therefore care for the stranger.