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Christians are leading the charge to deny help to Syrian refugees [View all]
Christians are leading the charge to deny help to Syrian refugees
November 17, 2015 by Dan Arel
There is a funny thing that the #AllLivesMatter and Pro-Life movements have in common, they both refuse to help Syrian refugees in serious need of life-saving asylum.
What else do they have in common? They are both overwhelmingly Christian movements. Because if it’s racist and hypocritical in the United States, you can bet your bottom dollar it’s a Christian movement.
The All Lives Matter movement is nothing short of a white supremacist movement that spawned in response to the #BlackLivesMatter, fighting to claim that we should not be focused on only black lives, but all lives, ignoring that caring about the systematic slaughter and oppression of a particular race should and does require special attention. The lovechild of All Lives Matter is, of course, Blue Lives Matter, another white supremacist movement that attempts to equate police deaths to those of black men and women around the country.
Prolifers, on the other hand, only care about fetuses. This movement is generally filled with right-wing conservatives who oppose welfare for the poor, support the death penalty, support the endless “war on terror” and other systems of killing that take more lives every day than abortion does in a week.
Syrian refugees are fleeing a country torn apart and becoming increasingly dangerous as ISIS furthers its control of the country slaughtering men and women by the thousands.
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The truth is, of course, both Christian and Islamic terrorist groups exist, but the Christian right cares very little about the truth. They care about creating a culture of fear, because when you’re the GOP, fear equals votes.
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These are the new breed of American terrorists, using fear and public policy to make sure the nation remains the white, Christian utopia they believe it to be.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/11/christians-are-leading-the-charge-to-deny-help-to-syrian-refugees
November 17, 2015 by Dan Arel
There is a funny thing that the #AllLivesMatter and Pro-Life movements have in common, they both refuse to help Syrian refugees in serious need of life-saving asylum.
What else do they have in common? They are both overwhelmingly Christian movements. Because if it’s racist and hypocritical in the United States, you can bet your bottom dollar it’s a Christian movement.
The All Lives Matter movement is nothing short of a white supremacist movement that spawned in response to the #BlackLivesMatter, fighting to claim that we should not be focused on only black lives, but all lives, ignoring that caring about the systematic slaughter and oppression of a particular race should and does require special attention. The lovechild of All Lives Matter is, of course, Blue Lives Matter, another white supremacist movement that attempts to equate police deaths to those of black men and women around the country.
Prolifers, on the other hand, only care about fetuses. This movement is generally filled with right-wing conservatives who oppose welfare for the poor, support the death penalty, support the endless “war on terror” and other systems of killing that take more lives every day than abortion does in a week.
Syrian refugees are fleeing a country torn apart and becoming increasingly dangerous as ISIS furthers its control of the country slaughtering men and women by the thousands.
...
The truth is, of course, both Christian and Islamic terrorist groups exist, but the Christian right cares very little about the truth. They care about creating a culture of fear, because when you’re the GOP, fear equals votes.
...
These are the new breed of American terrorists, using fear and public policy to make sure the nation remains the white, Christian utopia they believe it to be.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/11/christians-are-leading-the-charge-to-deny-help-to-syrian-refugees
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