oldbadger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:59 am
I used the word 'charity' to mean 'giving', you have twisted that word around, don't you think?
I did not twist the word, so let me be clear, when the word 'giving' is used in connection to the US AID the meaning is synonymous to 'bribe' or 'solicitation', it is not good giving. It is about executing unauthorized foreign and domestic policy.
Here is a response to the Pope when he got involved.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano wrote:In the parable of the Good Samaritan, the man who is robbed by bandits and left for dead could today be an American robbed by an illegal immigrant, or a veteran beaten by a gang of teenagers. Bergoglio does not stop to help him, because he is too busy obeying his masters. The one who stops to treat him, who takes him to the inn at his own expense (and not with taxpayer money), is not a Jesuit NGO or a progressive charity funded by USAID, but rather the Samaritan whom the new doctors of the Law consider a heretic, and who today wears a red hat with the writing MAGA.
Even the Archbishop recognizes the concept of giving other peoples money is not really giving.
oldbadger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:59 am
Really! Immigrants can't 'all be criminal' whilst 'some are good'!
Yes, Trump does get it wrong sometimes, his compassion is just too bigly. As for me everyone who crosses a border illegally is a criminal.
oldbadger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:59 am
Southern churches that have been running 'English as Second Language' courses to help immigrants have suddenly experienced no responses to emails and nil attendance at these meetings. Now they're moaning about what Trump has said and ordered. Yet they voted for him!
Your Christian values seem to have slipped, maybe?
The Southern churches knew that Trump was going to make the illegal immigrants go bye bye, so they have no reason to moan. And thank you for recognizing my pristine Christian values in the past and I hope to bring them back to the level you were accustomed to seeing.
oldbadger wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:59 am
If such destiny did happen to exist, Christians who have thought of reasons not to follow what Jesus did and said would be terrified, somewhat!
I am content with the will of fate.
I agree, even the Bible says.
1 Corinthians 3:13-15 wrote:
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
That is a great salvation. I don't understand why people would not want to seek God under those conditions, even if one would fail to produce abiding work he will be saved.