Ann Coulter says ‘welcoming the stranger’ not about immigrants

Conservative political commentator and writer Ann Coulter not too long ago dismissed the more and more widespread assertion from some Christians that the Bible’s instructions concerning private hospitality apply to U.S. immigration coverage.

Throughout a Feb. 18 interview with two school college students on the Delaware-based Intercollegiate Research Institute, Coulter additionally prompt that Christian leaders who promote such an concept are merely doing so as a result of they crave the approval of the liberal cultural elite.

“I think they’re total fake, phony frauds,” she mentioned of such folks. “They want to be praised in The New York Times. This has nothing to do with Christianity.”

Coulter, whose 2015 ebook about unlawful immigration, Adios, America, was revealed the identical month President Donald Trump first introduced his candidacy, went on to warn that the U.S. is successfully the final Christian nation, and that the remainder of the world will endure if it crumbles right into a morass of unassimilated cultures and ethnic conflicts.

“They ought to consider that this is the last Christian country on Earth,” she mentioned. “And once we’re gone, it’s over. It’s lights out for the globe.”

Whereas forgetting his title, Coulter appeared to single out former SBC Ethics & Non secular Liberty Fee President Russell Moore, whom she described as “loathsome.”

“I don’t see him taking homeless people into his house,” Coulter mentioned of Moore. “This is our house, this is our home, this is our family. You have to protect your home. It doesn’t mean you befoul your space.”

Coulter warned the U.S. is not going to “be able to help anyone” if the tensions which have engulfed elements of Minnesota amid the mass importation of Somali immigrants is permitted to comb the remainder of the nation.

“Different tribes from Somalia, they’re getting in huge fights [in Minnesota],” she mentioned. “Oh, that’s fantastic. Let’s bring everybody’s ethnic conflicts to our country. Great. That’s going to be great.”

“No, we’ve got enough problems. We got to save our country, and we are the last Christian country on Earth,” she added, clarifying that whereas somebody does not need to be a Christian to be an American, the historical past and political system of the U.S. have been steeped in Protestantism from the start.

Coulter’s theological place echoed that of Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who defined the biblical foundation of immigration regulation, borders and nationwide sovereignty earlier this month. His reply was in response to a reporter’s query about Pope Leo XIV citing Matthew 25:35 final fall to opine on U.S. immigration coverage.

Johnson, a Southern Baptist, claimed the Bible’s ethical imperatives for private conduct don’t essentially apply to the civil Justice of the Peace in the identical method, who’s deputized by God to implement the regulation. He additionally famous that “borders and walls are biblical,” and that assimilation was anticipated from immigrants even underneath Previous Testomony regulation.

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“You’re supposed to take care of the sojourner and the neighbor, treat them as yourself, welcome them in, yes,” mentioned Johnson. “But that is an admonition to individuals, not to the civil authorities.”

Citing Romans 13, Johnson mentioned civil authorities “are given authority under Scripture to maintain order,” and that they’re “God’s agents of wrath to bring punishment upon the wrongdoer.”

“It’s a calling to maintain order in society, and we have not had that,” he added, providing the chaos that has resulted from the hundreds of thousands of unvetted immigrants pouring throughout the U.S. border underneath the Biden administration for example of what occurs when the civil authority fails to meet its God-given function.

Johnson’s view was additionally promulgated by the late Charlie Kirk, who additionally famous that the Bible expects assimilation and warned in Deuteronomy 28:43-45 that being overrun and finally dominated by foreigners is an indication of divine judgment.

Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Put up. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com