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Originally Posted by Aptrgangr
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Of all the different social institutions I would say the Christian Church is the least to blame for this silly girl getting a child from a skinny no-hope Somali. Where was the government to keep him out of her country? Where was her family to forbid her marriage to a stranger? Where were her friends to talk her out of this? Where were her nation's educated elite to counter the Hollywood propaganda machine?
The Church's teachings on universal human dignity and rights have nearly nothing to do with such cases. Christian teaching says we should not lie, cheat, or steal from another human being or enslave them or kill them without good cause. There is nothing about having to allow immigration. Don't forget we have been Christian in Europe for more than fifteen centuries while this sort of thing is almost exclusively a post-Sixties phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by Tennyson
Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with Jewry:
" This does not mean that Jews in order to be saved have to become Christians; if they follow their own conscience and believe in God’s promises as they understand them in their religious tradition, they are in line with God’s plan, which for us came to its historical completion in Jesus Christ."
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If the point of this comment - and the point of this whole thread - is to prove the RC Church is more immigrant friendly and more Jew friendly than Protestants then you know you are talking nonsense. All modern mainstream Christian denominations in western Europe and the Americas are full of this empty-headed One World thinking. If anything the Lutherans and Anglican Communions are worse than the RCs. You know it and I know it; you're just playing devil's advocate to amuse yourself.