If you read the Bible, you'd know why Christians care for the Bible teaches that it is the obligation of every Christian to exercise their civic duty responsibly with respect to government which biblically; people have a right to form for the purpose of establishing a just rule of law to avoid the lawlessness found in anarchy.
So your entire premise that every Christian should not feel conviction over man-made laws designed to responsibly administrate their nation is false, very irresponsible, and unbiblical.
But your view also fails logically and societally. You see, in a well-functioning society, people have a material degree of homogeneity cooperating like a system of interconnected parts. Ideally they internalize this and do so because they believe it is the "right thing to do." We call this the "social contract." Though it is looking tattered these days with illegal immigration playing a material role in its deterioration, America still has a social contract.
Sociological studies show that people internalize the norms and values (e.g. social contract) of a society to the degree that a society actively imparts them. The process of this internalization is called enculturation.
You need to understand that illegal immigration completely bypasses the system designed to enculturate and imbue them with the culture and values of their new society so that they will internalize them and pass them on to their children maintaining a material degree of societal homogeneity and allowing them to join the system as an interconnected part rather than a disparate one.
This is important because if internalization and socialization fail to produce a positive social conformity, some form of “social control” is eventually needed to address the lawlessness created. Social control may take the form of ostracism, fines, punishments, deportations, and even imprisonment.
You strike me as someone who has never lived through an illegal alien invasion. I have and I can assure you that when millions of immigrants simply bypass the entire process created by our government and society to enculturate them they retain the very norms rooted in the poor performing societies they were seeking to escape from in the first place and pass those on to their children. Even their loyalties, in many cases, are not even to this country.
Where I grew up (Lost Angeles, CA), illegal immigration transformed miles of all-American blue collar neighborhoods into criminally patrolled barrios held down by street gangs that sling dope and "put in work" on the law abiding members of society and each other.
In some places, the breakdown of the social order is so complete that prison gangs control the street gangs ordering them to literally hunt other races and murder them. I kid you not.
As a result, in large portions of the Southwest United States today, gone are the civil communities that once existed and the American dream. In their place are sprawling dangerous barrios held down by criminal gangs and a new La Raza racism which preaches a seditious policy of reconquesta based upon a false history and logic.
The judicial and social safety nets are stretched to the breaking point, the governments in debt, the public education system (often despite 40% of the entire state budget and the proceeds of the lottery being allocated to it) have failed and are producing sub standard graduates. In CA, just as an example, public education fell from first in the nation to third from the bottom.
The U.S. has been partially transformed into the dysfunctional places they sought to escape from rather than them being transformed into the America they entered... an America which was a great forward-thinking, homogenous, safe, and educationally challenging one to grow up in... even right in Los Angeles County in those days.
As Teddy Roosevelt once said:
"We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
-Teddy Roosevelt.
Why should anyone care you said if they are a Christian? I can give you about a thousand reasons and 999 of them will be straight from the Bible.
So your entire premise that every Christian should not feel conviction over man-made laws designed to responsibly administrate their nation is false, very irresponsible, and unbiblical.
But your view also fails logically and societally. You see, in a well-functioning society, people have a material degree of homogeneity cooperating like a system of interconnected parts. Ideally they internalize this and do so because they believe it is the "right thing to do." We call this the "social contract." Though it is looking tattered these days with illegal immigration playing a material role in its deterioration, America still has a social contract.
Sociological studies show that people internalize the norms and values (e.g. social contract) of a society to the degree that a society actively imparts them. The process of this internalization is called enculturation.
You need to understand that illegal immigration completely bypasses the system designed to enculturate and imbue them with the culture and values of their new society so that they will internalize them and pass them on to their children maintaining a material degree of societal homogeneity and allowing them to join the system as an interconnected part rather than a disparate one.
This is important because if internalization and socialization fail to produce a positive social conformity, some form of “social control” is eventually needed to address the lawlessness created. Social control may take the form of ostracism, fines, punishments, deportations, and even imprisonment.
You strike me as someone who has never lived through an illegal alien invasion. I have and I can assure you that when millions of immigrants simply bypass the entire process created by our government and society to enculturate them they retain the very norms rooted in the poor performing societies they were seeking to escape from in the first place and pass those on to their children. Even their loyalties, in many cases, are not even to this country.
Where I grew up (Lost Angeles, CA), illegal immigration transformed miles of all-American blue collar neighborhoods into criminally patrolled barrios held down by street gangs that sling dope and "put in work" on the law abiding members of society and each other.
In some places, the breakdown of the social order is so complete that prison gangs control the street gangs ordering them to literally hunt other races and murder them. I kid you not.
As a result, in large portions of the Southwest United States today, gone are the civil communities that once existed and the American dream. In their place are sprawling dangerous barrios held down by criminal gangs and a new La Raza racism which preaches a seditious policy of reconquesta based upon a false history and logic.
The judicial and social safety nets are stretched to the breaking point, the governments in debt, the public education system (often despite 40% of the entire state budget and the proceeds of the lottery being allocated to it) have failed and are producing sub standard graduates. In CA, just as an example, public education fell from first in the nation to third from the bottom.
The U.S. has been partially transformed into the dysfunctional places they sought to escape from rather than them being transformed into the America they entered... an America which was a great forward-thinking, homogenous, safe, and educationally challenging one to grow up in... even right in Los Angeles County in those days.
As Teddy Roosevelt once said:
"We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.
But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American.
There can be no divided allegiance here. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
-Teddy Roosevelt.
Why should anyone care you said if they are a Christian? I can give you about a thousand reasons and 999 of them will be straight from the Bible.
AMEN, AMEN! Very good quote. I can also testify that you are absolutely right about the California Prison Gangs, running the Street Gangs from Prison. I was a Volunteer Protestant Chaplain in two different California super-max Prisons, for a total of 15 years.