@TulsiGabbard@jrizal1957 Tulsi and Abraham, I'm praying that the surgical team is guided by the hand of our loving God, and that He causes swift and complete healing. God bless you both!
@MorEdge_Insight@BreakerOfChains It's not just weird, it's also insane. Can a rootless tree survive? Christianity is born from Judaism. The Bible, even in the New Testament, teaches this plainly.
“The country was built by immigrants, so we should continue importing them.”
Fine. Let’s actually talk about the immigrants who built America instead of using them as a talking point every time politicians want to flood the country with more cheap labor.
Let's start with the massive waves of Italian immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Millions came from poor villages in southern Italy and Sicily. They arrived to poverty, and brutal working conditions. Most worked construction, railroads, docks, sanitation, factories, and street labor. Kids sold newspapers and shined shoes. Families packed into tiny apartments and worked nonstop just to survive. Over time, they built businesses, churches, neighborhoods, restaurants, and eventually fully integrated into American life while keeping parts of their heritage.
Similar was with the Jewish immigration, especially from Eastern Europe. Jews fled pogroms, persecution, and economic misery. They came with almost nothing and worked in garment factories, pushcart vending, tailoring, shopkeeping, and small family businesses. Families squeezed into tiny apartments while parents worked insane hours. They pushed education hard, opened businesses, and climbed economically over generations. They adapted to American civic life while contributing massively to medicine, law, science, business, culture, and industry.
Greek immigrants followed a similar path. Many arrived poor and barely speaking English. They worked diners, factories, railroads, food carts, and family-run shops. Many Greek families built businesses from scratch through exhausting work and strong family structures. They preserved religion and traditions while still becoming deeply American over time.
Same goes for Irish immigrants who came during and after the potato famine. They worked some of the dirtiest and hardest jobs in the country, from canals and railroads to mining and policing. Over generations they became deeply integrated into American political, labor, police, and civic institutions.
The common thread with most historic immigrant groups was that they came into a country that expected assimilation. America didn’t bend itself entirely around them. They were expected to adapt to American norms, learn English, work, integrate, and become part of a shared national identity over time.
That’s why so many Americans reject the dishonest comparison between those immigration waves and what politicians are pushing today.
The issue isn’t immigration itself. America has always had immigrants. The issue is the incentives, the speed, and the complete collapse of the expectation that newcomers should assimilate into a shared American identity.
Previous immigrant waves mainly came through a legal system with far lower numbers, far less government dependency, and enormous pressure to adapt. Today, Americans are told that even expecting assimilation is offensive.
Meanwhile, corporations benefit from endless cheap labor, working-class wages get undercut, housing and public services get overwhelmed, and anyone who raises concerns gets smeared as xenophobic.
The real argument Americans are having isn’t whether immigrants can contribute to this country. Millions have and millions still do.
The argument is whether a nation has the right to control its borders, preserve its culture, prioritize its own citizens, and decide that endless mass migration isn’t sustainable or healthy for social cohesion.
A country is more than an economy. It is also a culture, a shared identity, and a people. Historically, immigrants came here to become part of that. Today, many politicians act as if America itself is supposed to endlessly transform around whoever arrives next.
It's time to stand up to these politicians.
Most people don’t realize this but when a Muslim becomes a Christian, it is one of the most traumatizing things a person goes through.
From all angles, emotionally and spiritually, and in some countries, even physically.
Your entire identity collapses overnight. You have to rebuild it from scratch. You have to relearn how to relate to the whole world.
Everything you were taught about God, your purpose, your worth, suddenly feels like it’s under attack.
You’re grieving who you were while trying to figure out who you are now.
That tension only gets harder with age.
That’s why so many Muslims shut down when they hear the Gospel.
It’s not rejection.
It’s self-protection.
And this is where we as believers often miss it.
We try to win arguments instead of winning a person.
But Jesus didn’t say defeat them, He said love them.
If we’re going to reach Muslims, we have to step into that tension with them.
We have to walk with them. Sit with them. Cry with them.
We have to show them that faith is not brute force, it’s family. Not just bloodlines, but a real spiritual family in Christ. When my world was shaking, it wasn’t a debate that changed me.
It was a brother who walked with me, sat with me, invited me in, and showed me the love of Christ consistently until my walls came down.
Then I asked him about his faith.
That’s what it took.
If we can be both loving and bold, we will see real revival continue.
@RealShahriqKhan This is exactly how I feel. I grieve for those precious souls forever lost. Jesus died for them, too, and He commanded us to love and pray for them! It is shameful to grieve the heart of God.