Apparently,
I am no longer a Christian.
Pope
Francis has denounced everyone who favors building a border wall in order to
protect their country and limit illegal immigration by stating that anyone with
those ideas “is not Christian.” Taking a brief break from attacking the
free-market capitalist system that has brought most of the world out of abject
poverty and provided the material wealth that illegal immigrants come to the
United States (and the West) to exploit, the pontiff turned to the subject of
border walls. Flying back to the Vatican from Mexico he was asked what he thought
of Donald Trump’s pledge to build a wall on the southern border of the United
States. Francis answered, “A person who thinks only about building walls,
wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not
in the Gospel.” To his credit, Trump quickly responded by saying, “For a
religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful.”
Last
week Trump said that the Pope’s plans to pray at the border show he is a
political figure being exploited by the Mexican government. Asked if he felt he
was being used as a pawn by Mexico, Francis said he didn’t know, but, according
to reports, he seemed “pleased” to hear that Trump had called him a “political”
figure, noting that Aristotle had described the human being as a “political
animal.” He certainly does seem hell-bent on ensuring that a Democrat wins the
2016 U.S. presidential election.
Perhaps
the proudly political pontiff doesn’t know that the United States annually
takes in more people every year, legally, than the rest of the world
combined. Add a half million or more illegals to that number and it comes
to roughly 2 million “refugees” accepted every year. That would be an
impossible task for many countries and is now an extremely dangerous one for
the U.S.
This
pope shepherds criminals towards our border, hugs prison inmates and is
famously inclusive in the modern sense, but he just figuratively kicked
millions of people out of his Church and the Christian religion.
Christianity
is already under attack from secularism and militant Islam (many of whose
adherents are streaming across our border), so it seems odd that he’d banish so
many folks from his otherwise tolerant religious tent. What’s more, the Vatican
itself has the most restrictive immigration and citizenship policies (of any
nation) in the world and is surrounded by walls.
Among
leftists, hypocrisy has now become a religion unto itself.
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