Thoughts on the Minutemen at 4:28 in the morning
It's 4:28 am and I can't get back to sleep. My wife and I have different things we like to have on when we are trying to go to sleep. I like music, maybe some Vaughn-Williams or a Bruckner slow movment or some Gorecki. She likes to have it on the news. Tonight she won and I woke up to something about billboards the Minutemen want to put up, saying that our troops are not dying for illegal aliens. First of all, I think for a bunch of guys with guns going up against groups of hungry, dehydrated, poverty-stricken Mexicans to name themselves after a rag-tag group of men who went up against the well-armed, well-fed, well-trained army of what was, at the time, the most powerful nation in the world is, to say the least, inappropriate.
Now I realize that not every Mexican who crosses the border illegally is one of the huddled masses yearning to be free. It's not a simple issue. However as a Christian I have to have God's Word as my starting point, and the Bible does have a lot to say about aliens, and what it says is not what we are hearing from the Minutemen. It is interesting to watch Christians (including myself) and see when we like to play the 'obey the governing authorities' card and when we like to play the 'we must obey God rather than men' card. As I said before, it usually comes down to which political ideology we find oursleves in bed with at the moment, or what threatens our sense of security (ie. fear, which I belive perfect love, God's love, is supposed to cast out).
Anyway, as I said, it's in the wee hours of the morning and my brain is not fully engaged, though I will stand by what I have said so far. I will return to this when my resources are fully engaged. Think about this, though.
It's 4:28 am and I can't get back to sleep. My wife and I have different things we like to have on when we are trying to go to sleep. I like music, maybe some Vaughn-Williams or a Bruckner slow movment or some Gorecki. She likes to have it on the news. Tonight she won and I woke up to something about billboards the Minutemen want to put up, saying that our troops are not dying for illegal aliens. First of all, I think for a bunch of guys with guns going up against groups of hungry, dehydrated, poverty-stricken Mexicans to name themselves after a rag-tag group of men who went up against the well-armed, well-fed, well-trained army of what was, at the time, the most powerful nation in the world is, to say the least, inappropriate.
Now I realize that not every Mexican who crosses the border illegally is one of the huddled masses yearning to be free. It's not a simple issue. However as a Christian I have to have God's Word as my starting point, and the Bible does have a lot to say about aliens, and what it says is not what we are hearing from the Minutemen. It is interesting to watch Christians (including myself) and see when we like to play the 'obey the governing authorities' card and when we like to play the 'we must obey God rather than men' card. As I said before, it usually comes down to which political ideology we find oursleves in bed with at the moment, or what threatens our sense of security (ie. fear, which I belive perfect love, God's love, is supposed to cast out).
Anyway, as I said, it's in the wee hours of the morning and my brain is not fully engaged, though I will stand by what I have said so far. I will return to this when my resources are fully engaged. Think about this, though.
posted by Pastorjeff | 2:41 AM
2 Comments:
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Minutemen! *sigh*
Here's the Minutemen's website for some interesting reading:
http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/
Apparently they've broken ground on their fence.
Jeff, a great beginning on the blog! Keep up the good work. I look forward to reading it.
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