The three men I admired most, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, will be thrown on a bus to Mexico . ..

Apparently the Thurvey is not the juggernaut outlet for free exchange of ideas that I had anticipated. Give it a whirl if you want, but in the meantime I am going to write something.

I've decided I may flip-flop on an issue that I feel strongly about. Teaching the Bible in public schools. I love my constitution and respect others of different faiths or of no faith at all, but it seems to me quite a few notches of the Bible Belt are clueless about the Bible. So maybe we need some schooling on the matter, so that we might better represent such a good name.

With an almost religious zeal our legislature passed, and our governor signed into law the new Alabama Immigration Act. I can't remember the formal name, you can look back a couple of posts for that if you want.

It is designed to make life so isolated, so harsh, maybe hellish, for illegal immigrants that they either die or leave.

Living, breathing human beings. "Foreigners" " Women and children." You might want to look these up in your concordance. We were told how to treat them. And it wasn't to make life a living hell.

Here is one of the many, many, many admonitions about such behavior in the Hebrew Testament, from that great wheel man, Ezekiel:

The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.
Ezekiel 22:28-30

It didn't go well for those people of that land.

But, the argument goes, we can't run the government according to the rules of our religion, that would be wrong. That makes for interesting and beneficial conversation. Except when it is dishonestly pulled out and dusted off when useful to those who might need it for the moment.

For example, in this same legislative session several provisions restricting abortion were passed. The rhetoric of legislators left no doubt that the basis for their votes was their religious beliefs.

I'm not talking politics, government or policy.

I am talking about the Bible. God's love letter to mankind. Foreigners, women and children, the oppressed, the outcast. The least, the last and the lost. These are the people that Jesus hung out with much of the time and the people he was the most gentle with.

Jesus made it clear in Matthew 25:31-46 that we will find Him in the persons of the poor, the hungry, the thirsty, the sick, the lonely, the imprisoned and the stranger. Read the story.

So, it is not much of a stretch, if you believe this Gospel stuff at all, that in today's Alabama, Jesus will be standing among the strangers among us, the oppressed among us, the hungry, and the lonely. Today in Alabama we further identified that group as illegal immigrants. So, I imagine, no, actually I am as sure as I am about anything I believe, that Jesus will be among those for whom we are creating this hell. He will be among the parents who cannot find work. He will be among the families as they scrimp for food, he will be among the children as they suffer from it all.

He will even be among those that are imprisoned and ultimately returned to the land from which they came.

It is ironic that so many Alabamians have complained that we have thrown God out of our schools.

Cause that is nothing compared to what we are doing now.

We are deporting Jesus.

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