"Mighty big words comin' from an A-Rab"

My church has a mission partner group where we welcome and help house and settle newcomers. Some of our congregation have even let them live in their basement units, helped them with finding housing, furniture, etc, and just helped them navigate how to do life here, like doctor's appointments, banking, school, etc. It makes us absolutely livid that doors are closing to newcomers.

This is funny, but would be more accurate if it said "MAGA Christians" instead of "White Christians".

I'm an atheist and most of the Christians I know are pretty accepting. It's almost as if they respect the teachings of Jesus and aspire to be more like him, unlike all too many MAGA Christians.

NIMBY

Wait, was Christianity and the command to spread the gospel message the reason why the age of exploration happened in Europe, as opposed to elsewhere?

Poors stay on that side of the fence

Missionary trips are often glorified vacations. “Voluntourism.”

High school/college kids come over, build a school and then bounce. It would be better if that money was spent hiring local people to build that school. It relies on this racist thinking that somehow those poor Black or South American or whatever people are too stupid to know how to build things/survive, and they need some random white kids to come in and safe the day.

It’s for show, it’s to make the “missionaries” feel good about themselves and get some nice profile pictures instead of actually doing anything.

There are cases of “hospitals” being started by random people with no medical training - one I’m thinking of killed lots of babies. Somehow a random unqualified white person is just better and smarter, that they can fix all the problems.

It’s such a fucking farce. The real problems of the global south are that the centuries of exploitation and colonialism destroyed those countries economies and ways of living. The pseudo charity does nothing but exist as colonialism lite.

(I am excluding the rare groups of actually qualified people. I’ve talked to nurses and such who have done good work in places like Haiti. But they also did the same kind of work here - the kind of people I met assembling fentanyl test kits.)

Evangelicals don’t spread love. They spread hatred just look what they have achieved in Africa.

I'd rather be asking why God has the situation shit enough for those people to be leaving their countries

This applies mostly to WASPs and Catholic imperialists, wouldn't say all Christians feel that way.

Is this gomba fallacy?