How Liberal ‘Christian’ Immigration Policies Dehumanize EVERYONE

People have long made fun of me for treating my beagles like humans — feeding them wild salmon, taking them to top-line doctors, getting them ultrasounds and liver meds, buffalo treats and gator meat and letting them sleep in bed. To which I’ve always answered, “It’s my money. Go get a job and earn your own.”

But of course I don’t treat my dogs exactly as if they were human. When Franz Josef got sick with bladder cancer, and the medicine stopped working, I agonized for days, said my goodbyes, then slowly fed him a whole rack of barbecued ribs. I took him to the vet, where I stroked his velvet head as the medicine smoothed his path to dreamless sleep.

That is not how I treated my parents when each of them died of cancer. Instead, I sat with them as they agonized, prayed with them, and brought the priest to help them repent for all their sins. Some would say that Franzi got off easy, that people should be treated as “mercifully” as animals, and “granted” quick, painless deaths. Since cancer strikes everyone in my family, it will surely claim me some day, so I am tempted to agree.

But I can’t, as a Christian, admit that human beings should be treated the same as pets, intentionally killed to spare them needless, useless suffering. Because we know that human suffering isn’t necessarily useless. Jesus’ pains on the cross were not a meaningless tragedy, and if we unite ours with his, they aren’t either. We should diminish them all we can, and accept what is left as the price of human dignity, the tax we pay for sin — our own, or other people’s. It’s a mind-tangling mystery, but it’s better than the alternative.

Here’s the alternative, as described by author Richard Weikart in his powerful new book The Death of Humanity:

The University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne has stated, “Although it’s seen by nearly everyone as humane — and even moral — to end the life of our terminally ill pets, it’s regarded as murder to make the same decision for ourselves.”

He scoffs at the idea that humans are qualitatively different from, or have greater value than, animals. However, if you read more of Coyne, you find that he embraces many moral stances typical of many American progressives. He would be horrified if I suggested that we round up all the homeless people in a city, sterilize them, imprison them until someone comes to take them home with them, and if no one comes for them, euthanize them. Yet this is how we treat stray dogs.

And it’s how too many Christians, including some of our leaders, are treating Muslim immigrants. We linger over pictures of cute little Arab kids, or carefully posed shots of exotic women in beautiful headscarves — and avert our eyes from angry, self-righteous mobs of military-age men thronging radical mosques in London, Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt. We suppress the obvious questions: “What on earth are those people doing there?” “What reckless fools let them in?” And (most important): “How can we make them go back where they belong?”

Instead, we focus on the brown, puppy eyes of the children, the sad faces of the women, the anecdotes of good, decent Muslims — like the store owner in Glasgow, who said “Happy Easter” to his Christian customers on Facebook. We don’t read the sequel, which reports that this gesture got him stabbed to death by a man from the local mosque.

We want to feel good about ourselves. We want to be congratulated as “tolerant,” “open” and “cosmopolitan.” We don’t want to be labeled, judged, maybe even harassed by our “tolerant” governments. We want to bask in the fuzzy, cozy, pseudo-Christian sentiment that all religions are at root the same, once you bat down the “extremists.”

Now, all dogs are at root basically the same. The behavioral differences between a Basset Hound and a German Short-Haired Pointer are finally superficial. Virtually all dogs, if they’re raised well, if they’re not abused, will respond with warmth and gratitude. It’s the humanitarian heresy that pretends that humans are just like dogs.

Regardless of what they say they believe, of the habits their cultures encourage, of the actual, literal words of the sacred texts of their religion…. We Westerners know better. A radicalized Muslim — that is, one who reads the Koran and takes it at face value — may say that he thinks that Jews are descended from monkeys and pigs. He may even believe that he believes it’s right to stone homosexuals to death, or marry girls at the age of nine, or “kill the unbeliever wherever you find him.”

But surely he doesn’t really think that, the progressive thinking goes. Not really. A few years of Western welfare checks, some shiny community centers paid for by local taxpayers, and a police force that firmly punishes native citizens if they complain about immigration, and just you wait and see! Those “angry” Muslims will be smiling, wagging their little tails and eating right out of your hand.

How fitting that elites in Belgium treat religious people this way, since their country is one of the euthanasia capitals of the world. They see every person as a pet.

I have distilled here the whole theory, in all its sophistication, that underlies Western multiculturalism and “Christian” support for mass immigration into a welfare state. That’s it, folks.

Are there useful things Christians and the West can do for Muslims back in their own troubled countries? Yes indeed. But only if we take them seriously as fellow human beings — which means that when they threaten or denounce us, we stand up and guard against them. (For more from the author of “How Liberal ‘Christian’ Immigration Policies Dehumanize EVERYONE” please click HERE)

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