Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“I wonder how Christians who favor the current US government’s war on immigrants can reconcile their stance with Leviticus 19:34, which reads (King James version): ‘But the stranger who dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.’ Would they reply that the Bible is merely epic poetry? Or are they CINOs — Christians In Name Only? One endearing characteristic of the Catholic Church, which was the only Christian church for 15 centuries, was its universalism — globalism as we would say today. This feature, as well as its spiritual message, provided multitudes of poor and exploited people, the bulk of the population on earth, with the ability to feel that they were elsewhere, just as culture in its learned sense is a way to be elsewhere.” (03/27/25)