"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." - Galatians 3:28
During her television program on Wednesday night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham said the following: "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore,massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like." Ingraham said "this is related to both illegal and legal immigration."
Putting the politics of legal and illegal immigration aside, the comments by Laura Ingraham are said to be resonating with many Americans who self-identify as Christians, but they shouldn't be. The vast majority of those coming to America from Latin or South America are in fact Christians, many of them more devout and committed to their faith than those living prosperously in America. In that case, they are brothers and sisters in Christ of those who claim to be his followers. It should not matter, at all, to a Christian what race or ethnicity a fellow Christian belongs to, what language he/she speaks, or what nation he/she was born in, for the shared bond of brotherhood is a spiritual one and a mutual experience of forgiveness of sins through the grace of God.
In the end, those who claim to follow Christ, and yet look upon fellow Christians, who happen to look different than we do, as an "other" who are a "plague" of "vermin" threatening to "infest" America (and yes, such language is far to commonplace, and becoming more mainstream), have a far bigger problem than their politics. For those who judge others based upon their outside appearance are rejecting the explicit teaching of the Gospel, rejecting the Lordship of Jesus Christ over the whole earth (and not just one nation or ethnic group), and allowing hatred to have a place in their hearts. In other words, they are in rebellion against God. Racism among Christians, or those claiming to be Christians, is a cancer, and a deadly one at that. There is no need to sugarcoat this, it is a sin for any Christian to reject a fellow Christian because they don't look like them (or talk like them). I have no idea if Laura Ingraham is a true follower of Jesus Christ (not my place to sit in judgment on that question), but I do know that those who applaud her fear of Christians (many of them asylum seekers or refugees) who don't look like "us", relegating these human being created in the image of God and for whom Christ died upon the cross, to the category of "them" and styling "them" as a threat, will answer to God one day for rejecting the teaching of the Word of God, "Christ is all, and is in all."
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