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Originally Posted by Errigal
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?
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Her nation was fighting a stupid war in the Balkans when the girl went to Finland as a refugee. Now she came back to Sarajevo to bring a surprise to her grandparents. Good riddance.
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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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The Catholic Church has never condemned miscegenation. Interracial marriages were blessed by the Church already in the 1500s and 1600s. Miscegenation in Europe is a small step from miscegenation in colonies.
However, in North America interracial marriages were condemned by all Protestant churches until the 1900s and they were a taboo in the society.
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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.
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I am not aware of any European mainstream Protestant denomination which teaches that Jews are saved because they are the Chosen people and don't need to believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
The Catholic Church does teach that the Jews are saved if they believe in Judaism which is heretic.
Lutheranism has been the backbone of nationalist movements in Europe for decades. We should thank Lutheranism for the birth of the German nation-state. The Wartburg festival in 1817 illustrates the inseparable connection between nationalism and Lutheranism.
The reactionary, anti-nationalistic role of the Pope in European history is well known. He backed imperialist states like Spain, France and Austria-Hungary which oppressed European nations.
The views of modern Lutheran churches are irrelevant because they have no influence.