A 27 yr-old Iranian woman converted to Christianity, and had to flee Iran (where conversion brings the death penalty). She fled to the US to seek asylum. The Trump administration arrested her, put her in shackles, loaded her on a military plane with 300 other migrants...
... of the policies of the president who believes he is making America more "Christian."
It is not illegal to seek asylum because your life is in danger.
This is cruelty.
This hit me hard because she's the same age as my youngest daughter. Imagining this happening to my daughter - stranded alone in a camp in a foreign country, because you turned your life over to Jesus - is horrifying.
... and flew her to Panama. (Trump pressured Panama to take US deportees, regardless of country of origin.)
After a week confined to a hotel in Panama City, she has now been dumped in a refugee camp near the Darian Gap. She doesn't speak the language. She has no...
... legal representation. The UN is trying to help others leave Panama and return home, but she can't go back to Iran because of her illegal Christian conversion.
She was a school teacher before her conversion. Now she is abandoned in a camp because...
Watching protestors invade the Capitol with Christian flags and a giant “Jesus 2020” banner. Lawmakers are in hiding because of marauding... Christians??
Anyone still unsure Christian nationalism is an issue??
Are drone strikes always wrong? Sometimes wrong? Killing innocent people is wrong, correct? Is it ever justified? Are you opposed to capital punishment because of the reality that we sometimes kill innocent people? Does the “greater good” ever justify innocent death?
Are you not aware that Christians have held different positions on all these questions through the years? That the SBC was officially pro-choice into the 1980s? That multiple Christian traditions refuse military service because of their biblical convictions?
Yes. As does capital punishment. And certain medical decisions. And most military action.
The question is under what circumstances ending a life permissible? And Christians disagree about that on all the issues I’ve raised above.
What about abortion to save the life of the mother? Or killing civilians in a drone strike? Can’t faithful Christians come to different conclusions? Is it wrong to believe all killing is immoral? Or that some killing can be justified to save lives?