The feelings you have now about Donald Trump's appointment of Jay Bhattacharyya to head the National Institutes of Health are important for reasons far beyond health care. This also speaks to how you may have changed in terms of your expectations for governance and citizenship overall. Enough messed up stuff, right? Are you busy living or are you busy dying?
In that respect, Bhattacharya and Trump's border czar candidate Tom Homan are clearly very different kinds of people. But both have a very clear mission to reform something that is completely broken, and they both have to remember that when things get tough along the way. The excitement you feel right now is more than just an emotion. That must be a promise.
What started as people picking berries and building shingled roofs to achieve the American Dream has evolved into an unsustainable culture of criminal privilege.
We will not quit until we have restored truth and justice to our cause.
So let's get rid of all the nonsense about immigration and stop it. For example, are mass deportations and wall building used to protect borders in the Bible? The answer is yes. But many who grew up in the era of Hawaiian shirts, pleated khakis, and sweater vests weren't taught about this by their pastors.
So loving your neighbor as yourself probably doesn't mean what you think it means. But don't feel too bad. For example, much of Latin America, where the current Pope is from, was fooled by something called “Liberation Theology,” which in the name of the Lord is neo-Marxism.
When President Ronald Reagan supported amnesty for illegal aliens in 1986, many of those coming to the United States shared common values with Americans. They sought to escape hardship and build a better life. But what followed was a wave of immigrants who increasingly rejected the idea of borders as guarantees of freedom and security. Instead, many began to see borders as something between the negotiable and the irrelevant, a departure from the values sought by previous generations of immigrants.
Today, this clash of generations and motives has reached a tipping point. This spurred a successful presidential campaign for Mr. Trump, who ran on a platform of mass deportation and secured the largest percentage of the Latino vote in Republican history.
Why did this happen? Initially, many Hispanic immigrants lacked strong alignment with Democratic values, but fear of deportation and losing the chance to reunite with their families in the United States I voted for the Democratic Party. But over time, those concerns were replaced by more pressing concerns. Communities faced the devastating effects of unchecked immigration, including the rape of women and the occupation of apartment complexes by Venezuelan gangs.
These harsh realities forced a shift in both electoral and existential priorities, fundamentally altering the political landscape in what many see as a moment of cosmic justice.
Earlier this year, Alvin Bragg's indictment of Donald Trump dramatically changed the trajectory of the Republican presidential race. However, as the year progressed, one of Mr. Bragg's lawyers witnessed a Venezuelan gang member masturbating in public. The irony is amazing. This is the kind of situation that evokes the energy of “Vengeance is mine, says the Lord,'' and we must respond by having people like Tom Homan take decisive action. .
Don't be fooled. God is not mocked. We inevitably reap what we sow. What began as people coming to pick berries, make beds, mow lawns, and thatch roofs to achieve the American Dream has evolved into an unsustainable culture of criminal privilege. This decline is being accelerated by unbridled globalism and the misplaced guilt of woke white suburbanites. This is the worst version of the “We Are the World” sentiment, born out of ignoring and dismantling the fundamental plumb lines of civilization.
That perpendicular line is the true gospel. No, grace does not abound just because we continue to sin. No, good does not come from committing evil. Hunger does not justify theft. And that's certainly true while real Americans endure the suffering of being ignored in places like western North Carolina, or while parents like Laken Riley in Georgia continue to bury their daughters. , does not justify welfare fraud.
God shows no partiality. He demands justice. To answer the question, does the Bible support mass deportations? Will God's people build walls to protect their borders? Absolutely. The book of Nehemiah records such efforts. After enduring exile and learning harsh lessons, Jews deported those who did not belong to their homeland in large numbers, including women and children.
That is what it looks like when a people immersed in repentance return to God's ways. Remember Homan now as he begins the mission that the American people have justly given him. Because it should never be otherwise.
