Trump: "Biden will turn Minnesota into a refugee camp."
1. This disgust toward refugees is the opposite of how the God of the Bible feels about refugees.
2. This derogatory language leads to violence against refugees.
3. This is also his policy.
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For Americans who fear Muslims:
"very few Muslim Americans – just 1% – say that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are often justified to defend Islam from its enemies."
"7% say that all their close friends are Muslims."
Evangelical Christians would like to see Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims become Christians. But 86% globally do not personally know a Christian.
When people immigrate to the United States, they tend to personally get to know a Christian.
My points above are that it is: biblically and morally wrong to denigrate refugees or radically reduce helping them. They tend to assimilate & not be violent when they immigrate. And they have a much higher likelihood of becoming Christians. There is no reason to oppose refugees.
The refugees welcomed—that Trump has reduced from 110,000 per year to 15,000—include many Christians.
So, yes, I am angry when Franklin Graham gives $400,000 to Donald Trump under the auspices of helping persecuted Christians.
Good balanced article from 2018 on refugees in Minnesota.
Minnesota has/had a lot of refugees AND there needs to be better support for the states and cities with a lot of refugees because welcoming these refugees is right and it is good for the US.
Story about refugee from Cambodia to Minnesota who is now a CBS Minnesota news cameraman.
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