There is nothing Christlike about the way power is being wielded today in the name of immigration enforcement.

There is nothing Christlike about using little children as bait to entrap their families. 

There is nothing Christlike about dragging an elderly man, a US citizen, out in the freezing cold in his underwear.

There is nothing Christ like about shooting unarmed protesters at point blink range.

There is nothing Christlike about holding human beings in inhumane conditions.

There is nothing Christlike about teargassing a family‘s vehicle and putting their three children including an infant into the hospital.

There is nothing Christlike about terrorizing immigrant communities and people of color. 

Why is it important for Christians to say this boldly?

Because the department of homeland security continues to use the Bible to justify itself and its recruitment videos.

Because the claim that America is a Christian nation is prolific.

America is not a Christian nation.

America is currently a nation where authoritarians are misusing Christianity as a tool of oppression and self serving power.

There’s nothing Christlike about weaponizing Christianity for political power.

When we do not advocate for humane and compassionate enforcement of the law, we are not advocating for the law, we are advocating for cruelty. 

When we Christians stay silent about this cruelty and dehumanization of our fellow human beings, in a nation that constantly proclaims itself to be

"Christian," Christ becomes synonymous with cruelty.

There is nothing Christlike about conflating the gospel with cruelty. There is nothing Christlike about invoking the name of Jesus to justify fear, exclusion, and violence. Christ himself was an outsider, born in a borrowed stable, raised under an oppressive empire, executed as a criminal under a foreign legal system.

There is nothing Christlike about supporting policies and practices that violate the dignity of human beings. When Christians remain silent, or worse, defend violence and dehumanization, we betray the gospel. We strip people of the humanity Christ came to restore in them and in us, and we strip the cross of its meaning: that God became flesh-and-bone among the marginalized, the fearful, the hunted, and the wounded.

May our hearts never grow numb.

May our compassion never waver.

May our faith always reflect the One who embraced the outcast and called us to love our neighbors as ourselves.

May we speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.

"For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'" -Matthew 25:42-43

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