On
Immigration by J. Parnell McCarter
Rome and her all too many lapdogs within the professing
Protestant church are purveying the un-Biblical positions promoted in the
article at https://theopolisinstitute.com/immigration-and-the-church/.* The Protestant church should be defending
property rights of nations as well as individuals, but in all too many cases
much of the professing Protestant church has abdicated its responsibility to
defend the moral law summarized in the Ten Commandments, including on the issue
of property rights. Nations have
property rights, such that foreigners cannot move in at will to any nation, any
more than an individual has a right to barge into someone else’s home and make
it their own too. Indeed, open borders over course of time is
tantamount to national suicide.
Accompanying the significant failure of much of the professing
Protestant church to defend property rights is the denial of the scriptural
meaning of the word “nation” (Greek ethnos)
and its implications regarding the scriptural norm for political order. The primary meaning of the word “nation” in
scripture is “a certain ethnic people”.
The scriptural assumption and norm is that political units will typically
consist of the territory ruled by a certain ethnic people. Grasping nations that form empires are
typically treated in an unfavorable light in scripture. Consider, for example, the case of the
“beasts” in Daniel’s prophecy. And
consider the difference between the model nation of
Israel versus the pagan Babel empire. But
much of modern Western culture, having embraced certain erroneous and
un-Biblical tenets of Cultural Marxism, deplores this idea of ethnic
nations. Much of the professing
Christian church has Christianized what are essentially the pagan ideas of
Cultural Marxism. Love is then
re-defined from its scriptural contours to Cultural Marxist contours. In reality, Cultural Marxist tenets are
really just historically Romish notions re-packaged
in a modern framework. Rome has long
stood opposed to the sovereignty of Protestant nation-states. It seeks a world-wide empire under one ruling
human authority who is the Anti-Christ.
The waning of sound Biblical Protestantism not surprisingly therefore
has been accompanied by the rise of Romish and
Cultural Marxist tenets, and sadly embraced by many professing
Protestants.
Since so much of the professing Christian church has
embraced and been promoting tenets of Cultural Marxism, the Western world has
sadly had to look to people who are frankly less religious like Dutch
Parliamentarian Geert Wilders and Republican
Presidential candidate Donald Trump to oppose Cultural Marxism and its
implications. This is very sad indeed,
because it should be the conservative orthodox Protestant church that is
leading the charge against it. We need
strong Protestant nationalists again like John Wyckliffe,
John Hus, Martin Luther, John Knox, William of Orange, etc. to arise by God’s
grace and stand up against this un-Biblical ideology that wreaks social havoc
and establishes an ethical code alien to scripture. We need real Protestant repentance and
reformation.
*The article reads: “First, we should clarify that
there is not the slightest shred of biblical justification for any government
to legislate against the free movement of law-abiding citizens from one country
to another. There should be no laws against immigration… Christians are called
to welcome migrants into their communities.
As we’re welcoming immigrants into our churches and communities, we may
find it necessary to resist or even refute some of the myths and half-truths
which are gaining traction in our media and elsewhere, and which tend to
generate an atmosphere in which these newcomers feel less than welcome. Naturally, the arrival of new faces, new
cultural practices, and new languages in our churches may pose all kinds of
challenges. And it is we, as members of the body of Christ, who have the
privilege of overcoming them. If our new members don’t speak fluent English, we
should teach them; if they don’t have jobs, we should help them to find them;
if they find themselves on the sharp end of our politicians’ tongues, it is we
who should speak up for them. A principled, courageous, Christian defense of
the poor and needy requires nothing less.”