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@georgia Let the states where an overwhelming majority of people support that take in refugees, and the ones where the majority don't support it not take any. Respect what people want and let them deal with the consequences of their decisions.

People who support taking in refugees should directly interact with them and contribute to their needs however. No champagne socialism.
@grillchen divine love (prema) is the highest virtue of all and benevolence/loving-kindness (maitri), active compassion (karuna), vicarious joy (mudita), and equal-mindedness (upeksha) all extend from it. cultivating all these is crucial on every viable spiritual path.

I'm wracking my brain trying to remember when (if ever) shitlibs cared about verifying someone's refugee status. If a nigger shows up at your border claiming to be a refugee, you have to just let him in and give him EBT. He's a nigger, so surely he's fleeing from something horrible.

@Goalkeeper @ChristiJunior I havent read titus or much of the Pauline epistles but ive recently read the gospels, acts, the johanine literature, and james. I ask you, is whatever quotation you cite more important than "love one another as I have loved you?"

john 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
@georgia @ChristiJunior @Goalkeeper
The commandment given at the Last Supper is to love other true Christians as Christ loved us true believers through His suffering, death, and sacrifice on the Cross.

He has already made known what He thinks of the reprobate:
"For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, 'They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known my ways.'
Therefore I swore in my wrath,
'They shall not enter my rest [i.e. most of the Israelites that originally left Egypt went to Hell].'" (Psalm 95:10-11)
"But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me." (Luke 19:27)
@Goalkeeper @ChristiJunior @matty jesus ate and forgave criminals and publicans. jesus said that you should love like he loves. you harp on a single insignificant quotation to argue that paul, who is not divine, who was engaging in a manner of polemic, would say that unbelievers are not worthy of your love.

here's a paul quote I just found.

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." Corinthians 13:13.

do you know what charity meant? it doesnt mean "giving money to the poor". it means "love". the original word is agape, which is the greek word for divine love. if you look at any concordance agape is the same love that God showed for humanity by dying on the cross. paul literally says that the commandment to (divinely) love one another is more important than faith here. https://biblehub.com/greek/26.htm

"Rather, it denotes a holy, self‐giving disposition that originates in God, is displayed perfectly in Jesus Christ, and is implanted in believers by the Holy Spirit. The frequency of the term in the writings of John and Paul underscores its centrality to apostolic theology and ethics."
@Goalkeeper @ChristiJunior @matty if God only loved people who repented or if He only loved Christians He would not be all-loving. God showers grace on the virtuous and the sinners alike, and Jesus advises christians to be like God in that regard.

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.  For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:44-48

do you know what Jesus says of people who break his commandments given in his sermon? he says "they will be called least in the kingdom of heaven".