The Disreputable Bede on Nostr: In the coming years, we're likely to see drastic reductions in the number of ...
In the coming years, we're likely to see drastic reductions in the number of refugees/asylum seekers admitted to the United States. Many evangelical Christians won't care.
But they do care about Jewish people, of whom Paul reminds us: "Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah."
So perhaps this will resonate with them? Anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation in the 1920s and 30s prevented many Jewish refugees from finding refuge in the United States.
To give an idea of what was going on even in 1939 as we knew about Hitler's persecution of the Jews: "In May 1939, the German liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba. The 937 passengers were almost all Jewish refugees. Cuba's government refused to allow the ship to land. The United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. The St. Louis passengers were finally permitted to land in western European countries rather than return to Nazi Germany. Ultimately, 254 St. Louis passengers were killed in the Holocaust."
The point being that we aren't proud today of a lot of our past actions against asylum seekers—we should try not to repeat our mistakes.
"And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt."
~ Deuteronomy 10:19
Sources:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/united-states-immigration-and-refugee-law-1921-1980
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-st-louis
But they do care about Jewish people, of whom Paul reminds us: "Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah."
So perhaps this will resonate with them? Anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation in the 1920s and 30s prevented many Jewish refugees from finding refuge in the United States.
To give an idea of what was going on even in 1939 as we knew about Hitler's persecution of the Jews: "In May 1939, the German liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba. The 937 passengers were almost all Jewish refugees. Cuba's government refused to allow the ship to land. The United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. The St. Louis passengers were finally permitted to land in western European countries rather than return to Nazi Germany. Ultimately, 254 St. Louis passengers were killed in the Holocaust."
The point being that we aren't proud today of a lot of our past actions against asylum seekers—we should try not to repeat our mistakes.
"And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt."
~ Deuteronomy 10:19
Sources:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/united-states-immigration-and-refugee-law-1921-1980
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-st-louis