JOHN ZMIRAK: Faith, Reason and Open Borders. [archive]

Such statements exert a powerful emotional appeal. They tempt us with the chance to join the elect of enlightened and compassionate “genuine” Christians—who just happen on this issue to agree with the dominant forces in the media, international elites at the United Nations and European Union, and the faculty of prestigious universities. These statements threaten us that if we employ our reason in discerning the wisest policies for our fellow citizens, we might be punished eternally in hell . . .

In fact, there is nothing genuinely Christian in refusing to use our reason, to account for the predictable effects of our actions, or to plan wisely for the future for our families and our communities. . . .

When large numbers of Sunni Muslims attempted to colonise much of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christians energetically organised to prevent them from doing so . . . Now the Islamic world is employing a different tactic for expansion. . . . If accepted, these migrants will someday gain the rights of citizens—the power to vote in laws that fit their values instead of ours. We have seen those values in action, from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan. Their fruit is honour-killings of women, execution of homosexuals, the death penalty for “apostasy” from or “blasphemy” against Islam. There are plenty of countries where people can live if they wish to be ruled by sharia law. Why should we inflict that illiberal creed on our children? Is that what Christ called us to do?