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So the books of the Kings, the words of the major and minor prophets, all can be cast aside according to Catholic doctrine? I think not. I have no beef with Catholics (especially on Fridays during Lent).

I'm sure that the Bible has some words on literal idol smashing. What are they ignoring? You're starting to sound like this:

If you can't speak in good faith what's the point of even replying? The vast majority of the Bible calls for a literal reading. Whether Genesis 1-11 does or does not has been debated by people smarter than us. Moses is an allegory? Again, what jew would have felt that way in the first century? And just stop with the parable *****. Parables are stories told to illustrate the point. But the *literal reading* would be that Jesus literally spoke the parables. Not that someone made them up later to make the teachings of Jesus easier to digest.

The US acquired Catholic territory (New France, New Spain) by conquest and land purchases, then acquired large influxes of Catholics later by Ellis Island and, even later, the southern border.

lol Leaving aside the types of literature found in the text, allegorical interpretations of a text do not preclude literal readings as well. Paul describes Abraham's baby mommas in an allegorical fashion in his letter to the Galatians; do you suppose that a first century jew did not believe that Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar were real people?

Reading is hard, huh? The post you quote is a rebuttal to the idea that the USA shares a culture with Mexico.

A bad one, naturally. And rightly so. America is historically a nation founded by deists and Christians, particularly protestant Christians. As someone without much skin in that particular game, there's not much point in half-assed religion, which is what non-literal interpretations of a text that demands a literal reading results in.

Each night I climb the stairs up to my room. It seems I hear you whisper in the gloom. I miss your picture on the wall And your footsteps in the hall While I'm crying my heart out over you.

At first I read "county" as "country" and found the contrast between a country saying "we're going to ban pit bulls" and "you see, around here people just carry machetes" really funny.

Nasty temperaments for sure. But several orders of magnitude less likely to kill someone.

Well ideally it’s not a line, it’s a point, and it’s usually somewhere on their leg.

Guys, you don’t understand. The disproportionate number of deaths and hospitalizations are just because bad owners really particularly like this dog, and only this dog.

Like what? Pray tell what culture do Venezuelans share with Arizonans? Mexicans are overwhelmingly catholic (strike one), often mestizo (strike two), and don’t share a language (strike three). Spicy food is not a culture.

So not only “paroled” by ICE (which means illegal) but committed a felony with a sham marriage in order to facilitate an easier asylum claim. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/nursing-student-death-uga-update-suspect-charges/85-dad86d18-ebc2-472f-97f7-c662d8e9547d

We can just go with Oxford and now you tell me. What migrants share history, common descent, culture, or language with us?

American idealism implies some competency and/or lack of malice in our government. One or both of those are currently wanting. And like I said. You think America is, at best, an economic zone or a proposition, rather than an actual nation.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Therefore the purpose of the current immigration and criminal justice systems is to allow these types to murder and otherwise terrorize white people.

You offer a lot of leftist platitudes and all the nonsense that comes with it but no actual substance. Who is the American dream for? What is “America?” Your answer to the first question seem to indicate that your answer to the second isn’t anywhere close to an actual nation. Which is why your opinion should be cast aside.

What makes life better here than in their country of origin?

Except it’s not. The blanket application is the problem.

How far does that run? One legal immigrant good? Or it has to be the mother? Employment authorization? Or residence? Or already naturalized? See there’s a lot more to this than simple magic dirt. Being born in America makes one an American as much as being born in a barn makes one a cow.

Or just catapult them back over the border. Or don’t let them in to begin with. But if they benefitted America at all they wouldn’t be allowed to come in to begin with. The decline is the point.

But you understand as the way it sits currently both are the case.

Whether you should or should not be a citizen is subject to more details. But should everyone born on magic USA dirt get automatic citizenship and the benefits thereof? Absolutely not.

It’s probably the least surprising thing I’ve ever heard that an interaction between those two led to a discussion on rhinoplasty.