“Who Would Jesus Deport?” Is The Wrong Question For Christian Patriots | Memo From Middle America

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When Nancy Pelosi said that illegals should be treated like the “baby Jesus,” the former Speaker became the latest liberal politician to opportunistically use Christianity to guilt trip Americans into giving away their country. [Pelosi: Border Children Should be Treated Like Refugee Baby Jesus, Breitbart, July 22, 2014] Unfortunately, the former Speaker the American Thinker called an “occasionally devout Catholic” is not alone, as evidenced by the widespread use of the deeply dishonest slogan “Who Would Jesus Deport?” [Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Baby Jesus’ Argument, by Jeannie DeAngelis, July 23, 2014]

“Who Would Jesus Deport?” is widely deployed by open borders advocates in articles, cartoons, t-shirts and even its own Facebook page. And as you might guess, those asking the question already have an answer—certainly not illegal aliens. The loaded question is designed to force American Christians into supporting destructive policies out of misplaced morality.

Though some are simply misguided idealists, many of the “Christians” who use this slogan are less concerned with living a Christian life than with using the faith as a way to get Americans to sabotage their own interests. A typical example is the Evangelical Immigration Table—financed in part by atheist globalist George Soros.

Of course, “Who Would Jesus Deport?” is a parody of the famous question, “What Would Jesus Do?” Coincidentally, “Who Would Jesus Deport” forms the same acronym (WWJD)—and it’s basically the same argument.

As a Christian, I disagree somewhat with “WWJD”—especially the careless way it is used. Naturally, Christians should follow Jesus Christ—as I John 2:6 states, “whoever says he abides in him [Christ] ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.”

However, the questions “What Would Jesus Do?” or “Who Would Jesus Deport?” aren’t calls to lead to a Christian life—just slogans. A Christian should think about the real world consequences of catchphrases that owe more to marketing than theology. He should also think about what Jesus really came to Earth to do.

The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, God the Son, was incarnated as a man to accomplish a mission—to die for us and be resurrected.

Therefore, there are many things in this life that Jesus did not do, not because they were wrong, but simply because they weren’t part of His mission to preach the Good News.

Jesus Christ was not a government official. If a contemporary Christian is a government official, he can’t say “I’m going to do my job as a government official just as Jesus did.” There may not be specific examples from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John about how to perform a specific task.

Nevertheless, although Christ was not in government, he did recognize governmental authorities, both Jewish and Roman. His famous distinction between rendering to God and rendering to Caesar teaches his followers to recognize the difference between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of Men. Though the Kingdoms of Men are certainly not identical to the Kingdom of God, under God’s authority they serve providential purposes.

Elvira Arellano, an illegal who made a great show of holing up inside a church to avoid deportation and used her anchor baby son Saulas a prop, tried to cast herself as a Christian martyr using the slogan. Here’s a photo of Elvira back in 2006 wearing a “Who Would Jesus Deport?” t-shirt.

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