If you Google ‘Are Christians welcoming to Migrants’ or ‘Are Christians welcoming to LGBTQ people,’ you will find that a remarkable amount of ink has been spilled to highlight the hypocrisy of Christians in taking—as they typically do—a negative stance on political mismanagement of immigration or the ubiquitous presence of Pride propaganda in the West. Then, of course, you have the now famous case of JD Vance’s defence last month of the classical Christian notion of the Ordo Amoris—the ‘ladder’ or ‘correct order’ of love—amid a Twitter spat with British writer and former UK politician and diplomat Rory Stewart. But can policies which are tough on immigration or progressivist ideological movements be defended from Christian premises? What about the story of the Good Samaritan, for example?
Christians were not commanded by Jesus Christ to love ‘humanity’ or ‘man,’ but ‘neighbour.’ That is to say, genuine love cannot be a vague sentiment that conjures in the subjective self a positive attitude towards an abstraction. Love is a concrete pursuit of the flourishing of this or that actual person whom one knows, in whose life one is implicated.
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