Scripture offers much material for arguments about dividing families

[applegrove]

https://www.economist.com/erasmus/2018/06/17/scripture-offers-much-material-for-arguments-about-dividing-families?cid1=cust/ddnew/email/n/n/20180618n/owned/n/n/ddnew/n/n/n/nNA/Daily_Dispatch/email&etear=dailydispatch&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Dispatch&utm_term=20180618

The Economist

"SNIP......

People who really want to raise the stakes in this scriptural to-and-fro might consider turning to a verse in Matthew’s Gospel which warns of the dire consequences that may befall anybody who does spiritual harm to children.

If anyone causes one of these little ones...to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

The onus would then be on anyone who advocates confining hundreds of children in sweltering, makeshift facilities, separate from their parents, to explain how this could be for their spiritual benefit.


......SNIP"

[jberryhill]

1. And just as much material on killing children who are "others"

Exodus 12:29-30 ESV

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

Joshua 6:20-21 ESV

So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

Numbers 31:17-18 ESV

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.

[applegrove]

2. Oh i agree the OT is violent.

[jberryhill]

3. And that's all that matters to the right wing Jesus freaks

[Voltaire2]

4. Religion has nothing to do with this.

We are a secular republic. This executive policy is abhorrent.