Does Being a Christian Make You Anti-Immigrant?
Google Image For me, among the most disturbing statistics I’ve read recently is this one from the Pew research firm as reported in American Magazine: “…Christians in general (46 percent) and Catholics specifically (41 percent) are twice as likely as those of other religions and the religiously unaffiliated (both 23 percent) to say an increase in immigrant population has been ‘a change for the worse’ in the United States.’” In other words, the more religious you are, the more likely you are to hold negative views toward migration. And this, despite religious leaders, Catholic and those of other mainline Christian denominations, often and forcefully teaching the opposite. Tribalism and the “me and them” views of U.S. society are alive and well, it seems. Personally, I think it’s because people are not principally moved by teachings, neither philosophical nor theological, but by emotion and personal experiences. Some struggle Is it ironic that I should write this as the author of a blog t...