Tax dollars are not charity. Taxes payments are mandatory.
Charity, by definition, must be completely voluntary.
You may have always paid your taxes voluntarily but just try stopping.
Sooner or later you will be taken away by men who wear guns.
That’s not charity.
Asylum-seekers they’re not. They seek welfare and free benefits. Our only moral obligation to those who would cut to the front of the line before all the others applying for citizenship (who would assimilate & respect our laws) is to jail and then deport them. No welfare or healthcare for illegals! No exceptions.
I find it distressingly duplicitous that liberals on the one hand decry Christian-based religion in most of its forms when it comes to local governments, schools, organizations basing any of their activities on it while on the other hand pout and bleat about “un-American,” “moral obligations,” and “Christian duty” when it comes to self-destructive actions like opening our doors to anyone.
The only reason that Kirsten Powers is on TV is because she is cute and good looking. Her arguments and thinking are weak, and in the end, her case ends up steeping in irrational emotion and feelings.
Leftists are always immoral in about every instance. They are the rot that causes all theses illegals such misery in their own countries.
Funny how all at once they decide Christian charity is the reason they are letting all these people in the US. They hate Christians, yet they evoke it everytime they want to use the tax money they force US citizens to pay for self serving gain of power through exploitation of other people.
Eric Metaxis needs to reign in the zeal of his recently converted Christian friend, Kirsten Powers.
How she came to Christianity:
http://theobservatorium.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-powers-of-enlightenment.html
As I read the Scriptures, it is a higher responsibility to teach people to fish than to just give them a fish. In the Congo’s case, it would be better to teach them how to live peacefully with each other than to rescue every Congolese who is in trouble.
A lot of this debate comes from simple biblical illiteracy. We could in fact run an immigration policy in precise accord with the New Testament and not have problem one. We could open the borders and take in any suffering person who wanted to be here. We would, of course, apply all of the NT, not just selected paragraphs, and we’d include such principles as St. Paul’s “if you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
The leftist mind doesn’t want to create Christian policies. They want to lift a few sayings from wherever they are convenient and use them to baptize socialism. It’s not worth serious effort to try to persuade them, really.
In Kirsten’s case, I think she is sincere, but she just hasn’t taken the time or trouble to think through the entire biblical view of helping the poor. And she probably can’t, because she probably accepts the implicit modern exegetical rule that parts of the New Testament are obsolete. I’d expect, for example, that Kirsten reserves the right to edit Paul on women, and on homosexuality. So why not edit him on how to care for the poor?
So there is no actual authoritative text for her to read. So any discussion of what is “Christian” or not is just two minds tossing around their favorite proof texts. This is a stage of unbelief.
When the bible is gone, church authority is gone, and the modern believer is drifting languidly down that slippery slope to despair, we’ll get to test the notion that man can build a good life on earth via reason alone.
This always ends in fire, not ice.
My viewpoint too.
What happened to upholding our laws, including the obligation to provide for the common defense?
Whatever moral obligation these people may 'feel' toward people from elsewhere, they have sworn before God to uphold OUR law.
Morality begins at home, folks, and the obligations that come with their oaths and their paychecks should come first.
Someone should ask that libtard twit Kristen if she has locks on her doors at home. If she says “yes” (which of course she would), simply state, “Why, aren’t you Christian enough to allow people to stay in your house?” There is no different between protecting one’s country with enforced borders and protecting one’s home with locks.
Kirsten, I and many others then have an absolute right to enter your apartment at any time, use her shampoo and other hygiene products without compensation, use your couch, all because we are “suffering” in some fashion!
Kirsten supposedly had her “coming to Jesus moment” and became a Christian. Problem is, she still hold the liberal worldview and goes to an apostate “live your best life now” type church. She also believes in gay marriage last I heard—what Bible is this promoted in?
It’s ludicrous to say we have a moral obligation to every single case of individual suffering in the world.
No matter what we do, folks will either suffer or be irresponsible with their decisions:
Matthew 26:11
Deuteronomy 15:11
She should start reading her Bible.
Carlson made the right points. The obligation of Christians to be compassionate and to help the poor is a personal obligation, not a state obligation. As he said, the world does not have a moral claim on US tax dollars. Why would it? If that were true, why don’t US citizens have a moral right to the tax dollars of Canadians or Mexicans? Why can’t we hit up the European Union to pay for some of this? Or why can’t the EU hit up the US to pay for their refugees? These BS arguments about the country’s moral obligation to illegals is really just a disguised argument for World Socialism.
Kirsten Powers is an incessant yacker who won’t shut up when her motor mouth is running on stupid. Even O’Reilly can’t shut her up. She wouldn’t allow any of these “poor children” from Central America to get even close to her faux pity party. Typical DC bubble elitist who is out of touch with reality in the “real” parts of the country.
All I need to know about this woman’s intelligence is that she dated Anthony Weiner. Talk about bad judgement. Everything she says is clouded by her poor choices in the past.
Does our obligation end at the border? I mean why not just take over their whole country and rape their resources to feed and cloth and provide 60” led TV’s.
They keep saying “children.” Only about 20% are children, the rest are members of various gangs. 0bama has brought the war to us.
Hmmmmmmm?
IMHO Kirsten needs to study the scriptures a long time before she begins to lecture American taxpayers on what we "owe" others according to her Christian principles.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Kirstin needs to post her Residential address at these "refugeee centers" and accept all that show up. Otherwise what she is promoting is the theft of my tax dollars to support ILLEGAL behavior.
Why does Estadoes Unidoes have a greater moral obligation than Mexico (home to the world’s second richest man)?
Tucker give it up you will never win that argument with a libtard. Because its all about emotions and fairness. Its just not fair to let anyone suffer. Its just not fair to deny people their god given right to flee to America at will.