It’s not unChristian to oppose too much immigration
by Peter Simpson, TCW:
THERE is probably no issue which furnishes a higher potential for virtue-signalling than that of immigration. To declare how much one supports it and to trumpet all the benefits which it brings affords an immediate passport to liberal respectability.
As a Christian pastor, I have long been grieved to see how the churches have generally sided with the cultural Marxists on this issue, despite the Biblical warnings not to conform to the fashions of a God-rejecting world. Also, as Alp Mehmet and Robert James have helpfully pointed out on TCW, it is far from easy to get politicians of any hue to grasp the nettle of seriously cutting immigration levels.
Not only have the churches feebly emulated secular liberalism on immigration, they have claimed that multicultural societies are a distinctly Christian goal and the ultimate virtue to be pursued. The received wisdom is: the more diverse society is, the better.
So let us face the issue head-on: is it ‘un-Christian’ to believe in the necessity of strict immigration control? Are those who advocate curtailing the flow of migrants into the UK doing so because of their dubious morality and unwholesome attitude to those who are different?
Should I as a Christian pastor be hanging my head in shame because I am deeply concerned that net migration into Britain in the year to March 2019 is running at 226,000, and because the annual average since 2014 is even higher than this, approaching some 300,000? Does the Lord Jesus Christ require the creation of multicultural societies as a moral imperative? Is it in defiance of the law of God for a nation rigorously to control its borders?
Related Posts
Tags
Share This
