IMMIGRATION & CHRISTIAN LOVE
The words “love” and “hate” inevitably appear in conversations having to do with Christianity, nationalism, immigration, and race. Christians who care for their nation, and who oppose immigration, are accused of not following God’s commandments. Proponents of immigration, whether they are Christian or secular, weaponize scripture to refute their opposition, making the case that good Christians ought to advocate for mass-immigration. Those in favor of immigration believe that we ought to accept the foreigner (millions of them per year) out of true Christian love.
This begs the question — what is true Christian love and how does it compare with the worldly definition of love?
WORLDLY LOVE
The modern world defines love as…
Strong feeling of kinship
Feeling of strong admiration based on close ties or common interests
Feeling of concern for another
Sexual attraction toward another
Non-confrontational and affirming, allowing others to do as they please.
Mutual feeling of pleasure between two people.
The modern definition of love largely revolves around feeling. Most importantly, a feeling of joy, pleasure, and happiness. These positive feelings are based on a superficial attraction or kinship. Many of these feelings do accompany love, but they do not describe its essence. Worldly love is purely sentimental. Concerned largely with what is pleasing to base emotions, often failing to consider broader context or long-term consequences. One act, thought to be incredibly charitable and loving, could actually be shortsighted, harmful, and irresponsible in context. For example, a good parent would be careful not to give their child too many gifts, lest they mentally and spiritually harm the child in the long term, despite the gifts pleasing the child in the short term. Presently, the average person believes that any interference or restriction to these feelings of pleasure is wholly undesirable, wrong, and evil. In their minds, boundaries oppose love. Therefore, boundaries must be destroyed to elicit the greatest amount of happiness & love possible.
This permissiveness for pleasure’s sake is one reason why we’re seeing all forms of lawlessness and sexual degeneracy permeate throughout our society.
Today’s love is one which is reflective — the “love” we have for others is the means by which we satisfy our own selfishness.
We give in order to receive — whether materially or emotionally.
Archbishop Averky speaks to this in his book The Struggle for Virtue.
Another aspect of nonreligious morality, which frequently goes unnoticed by the person himself, is vanity. Vanity appears in a more or less crude or subtle form. Good deeds are done in order to achieve glory and respect from others, or to make a good name for oneself and gain a reputation as a benefactor and helper of the needy… Very often vanity is the motivating force behind sentimental people, who sincerely consider themselves to be decent people, and do good, getting teary eyed over their own good heartedness. Some people think, in all seriousness, that they are doing good for good’s sake when in fact they are only feeding their own vanity.
Those who live by this definition of love have achieved their ideal society — one which is borderless and permits all forms of relationship and pleasure. Our country, however, has never been more confused about itself, destructive, ugly, depressed, or suicidal. Thus, there may be something missing in the modern definition of love.
HOLY SCRIPTURE ON LOVE
Because the Orthodox Church, which Christ established, is the pillar and ground of truth (1 Timothy 3:15), the proper definition of love can be found therein. Let us begin by reviewing what holy scripture has to say about the mystery of love.
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
(1 John 4:8)
Firstly, God is love. Its very meaning can be found in Him. This is why love is said to be a mystery. The breadth of its meaning cannot be completely defined or understood. Because love is a divine energy of the infinite God, we cannot fully encapsulate what love is. We can, however, know it insofar as God has revealed it to us. Those who have drawn closer to God, through repentance, begin to have a deeper understanding of what true Christian love is. Saint Paul describes what love looks like in his first letter to the Corinthians.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
From this verse, we begin to see that true love is not a mere feeling. It is a selfless action of one’s will. The following verses continue to reveal the selfless nature of love.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
(Galatians 5:13-14)
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
(John 3:16)
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
(John 15:13)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
(John 13:34-35)
But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8)
These scriptures all converge upon a theme of selflessness and duty. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, says, “love one another: just as I have loved you…”
How did Christ love us?
“But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Thus, love is a moving of the heart, soul, and body toward sacrifice for the sake of others. A base selfish desire is not accounted for. A love for the sake of reciprocation is not mentioned.
We see that true love is more than what the flesh wants.
We also know, however, that love is not mere action. This is taught by Christ in the parable of the ten virgins. All ten of the women were pure in action, having lived a life of chastity. Only five, however, were allowed into the marriage feast. The five that were locked outside failed to be spiritually attentive and open their hearts to Christ. While their body’s were physically “pure”, their souls were replete with sin from which they did not repent. Thus, Christianity is not faith-alone nor act-alone. It is both faith and action.
People erroneously portray Christ as a non-confrontational figure who promotes the same soft, superficial kindness and sentimentality that constitutes contemporary man’s perverted concept of love. God is not a simple, peaceful guru intent on making you “feel good,” and He’s not in some way divided from the paternal, chastising God of the Old Testament. Jesus Christ is the God of the Old Testament as well as the New.
Countless verses throughout scripture attest to the fact that our Lord does not conform to the worldly definition.
The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is His name.
(Exodus 15:3)
Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
(Matthew 10:34)
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.
(Revelation 3:19)
…unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
(Luke 13:3)
Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
(Luke 13:24)
Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
(Mark 11:15-17)
From this small sample, we can clearly see that our Lord judges, differentiates, chastens, and rebukes with perfect paternal love in contradistinction to the soft, pleasure-centric “love” of today.
We will move deeper into the wisdom of the Church by reviewing what her saints have to say about Christian love.
THE SAINTS ON LOVE
He who loves little, gives little. He who loves more, gives more. And he who loves beyond measure, what has he to give? He gives himself!
— Saint Porphyrios
Those who have worldly love quarrel over who can grab more love for themselves. But those who have spiritual and genuine love argue over who should give more love to the other. They love without thinking whether they are loved or not loved by others nor do they ask others to love them. They want to give and be given without wanting to give and be given. These people are loved by everyone, but most of all by God, with Whom they are related
— Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos
The most abominable enemy [the devil] endeavours to destroy love by love itself: love for God and our neighbour — by love for the world, for its fleeting blessings and its corrupt, impious habits, by carnal love, by the love of riches, of honours, of pleasure, of various amusements. Therefore let us extinguish every love for this world in ourselves, and let us kindle in ourselves, by self-denial, love for God and our neighbour.
— Saint John of Kronstadt
What is inherent in loving one’s neighbor? Looking not for your own gains, but for the spiritual and physical well-being of your beloved one. He who loves his neighbor, manifests his love to God because God transfers his mercy on Himself.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Love for God has no measure, for the beloved God has no limits and restrictions. However, love for one’s neighbors has limits and restrictions. If you don’t keep it in proper limits, it can divert you from loving God, cause a lot of harm, or even ruin you. Indeed, you must love your neighbor, but in a way that does not harm your soul. Do everything simple and holy without thinking about anything other than pleasing God. It will protect you in the matters of love for your neighbors from any wrong steps.
— Saint Ignatius (Bryanchaninov)
Men love one another, commendably or reprehensibly, for the following five reasons; either for the sake of God, as the virtuous man loves everyone and as the man not yet virtuous loves the virtuous; or by nature, as parents love their children and children their parents; or because of self-esteem, as he who is praised loves the man who praises him; or because of avarice, as with one who loves a rich man for what he can get out of him; or because of self-indulgence, as with the man who serves his belly and his genitals. The first of these is commendable, the second is of an intermediate kind, the rest are dominated by passion.
— Saint Maximus the Confessor
This small sample of the Church’s wisdom reaffirms the definition of love found in Holy Scripture. There is an emphasis on love being sacrificial in nature. A giving without a desire for receiving. This involves providing not only for our neighbor’s bodily needs, (alleviating physical and emotional burdens), but providing for their higher, spiritual needs as well. We can accomplish this by praying for our neighbors, and enemies, in secret and moving our hearts toward concern for their salvation. If we are to love others as Christ loves us, then we should, like Christ’s sacrifice for our salvation, desire the salvation of others with all of our heart.
To truly love another, you must desire their salvation, and cooperate with God in aiding them toward this end.
HOW TO LOVE PROPERLY
One of the greatest challenges in the struggle for our salvation is compelling our fallen nature toward the action of true love. So often, our pride turns our attempts at love into sin, and we end up doing more harm than good to both ourselves and our neighbors. We are not only confused about what love is, but we are also ignorant of the how. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, helps us understand.
Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.
(Matthew 6:1-4)
He goes on to instruct us how to properly pray (when we pray for our neighbors and enemies).
And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they live to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
(Matthew 6:5-6)
Our acts of charity and prayer ought to be done in secret, so as not to be overcome by pride and vanity. This is where the act of Christian love is at odds with the worldly acts of “love”. Sadly, the prevailing “love” of today is that which acts with pride. It soothes one’s ego to do charitable deeds. Especially if others can see your benevolence. The left hand always knows what the right hand is doing. People work to obtain a higher social status among their peers by “virtue signaling”, giving, not out of sacrificial kindness, but to gain a moral superiority over others.
In my opinion, love is of three kinds: carnal love, which is full of spiritual germs; worldly love, which is apparent, formal, hypocritical, and without depth; spiritual love, which is true, pure, genuine love. This love is immortal and remains “now and forever.”
— Saint Paisios of Mt. Athos
The sad reality is all that few of us in the world, including Christians, possess true spiritual love. Love is not as common to us as we would like to believe.
These distinctions in the usage, and practice, of love are very important and bring us to the crux of this article.
There are many who would disagree with American Homeland’s mission of opposing immigration and affirming the true American ethnos. They would claim that it’s wholly incompatible with our Christian calling. We contend, however, that our mission can be in alignment with Christ and His Church.
LOVE OF FAMILY, NATION, and RACE
We are not mere individuals. Every one of us belongs to a family. A child cannot be conceived without a mother and a father. Even the orphan, who is without the parents who bore him, is nevertheless tied to his kin through blood and spirit.
We are each blessed by God, with a particular inheritance from our parents. Our appearance, temperament, mannerisms, strengths, weaknesses, etc. are all imparted to us by our unique chain of forefathers preordained by God.
It is clear enough, from the law which God has written upon our hearts, that we are called to love our family, beginning with our parents. Our Lord explicates this natural law when He commands us to…
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
(Exodus 20:12)
Our parents possess a special love and honor in our lives. It is also obvious that we are called to love our siblings, children, and extended family. Christ calls us to love those who are near to us as thyself. As there is hardly anyone nearer to us than our kin, we learn to love them first and give them primacy in our lives, after God. We instinctively prioritize our family over those outside of the home. This instinct, however, is reaffirmed in scripture — proof that this is, in fact, God’s law written upon our hearts.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
(1 Timothy 5:8)
Obviously, our love ought to expand beyond the confines of the home, but you cannot love the outside world, or your enemies, without first learning to love your family. If you’ve failed to love those with whom you are closest to in blood, soil, language, and spirit - how are you going to truly love those who are completely unlike yourself? How could you possibly love those who hate you with every fiber of their being? You cannot.
Though today’s society wishes to erase the family institution, few would take umbrage with a man who is inclined to love and protect his immediate kin. Thankfully, despite how cold our hearts have become, we still possess an instinctive affection for our family. According to the world, however, this love cannot be extended to include the realm of nation or race.
American Homeland defines “nation” as a group of people who share a common culture, language, race, and land. All of these components are essential. More concisely, a nation is tripartite: blood, soil, and spirit.
The Latin root of the word nation is “nàscere”, meaning “to be born” — implying a relation by blood.
We belong to a family. This family belongs to an extended family. The extended family belongs to an ethnicity. Even further out, this ethnicity belongs to a race.
Just as we are commanded to love our immediate family, we must also love and protect these broader categories of kinship.
God has placed us within a race that possesses an aptitude, temperament, and spirit unique to itself.
Sadly, it is presupposed that if you have an attachment, or affection, for your nation or race, you hate those who fall outside of their respective boundaries. Certainly, as with all good things, a consciousness of nation and race can tempt those of us who possess it toward sin — leading us to hate members of other nations or races. When we give in to the temptation, we must confess and repent. It should not be taken for granted, however, that both nationalism and racialism are intrinsically sinful.
Food is not evil, in and of itself, but we may be tempted by food and become over indulgent and gluttonous. Money is a morally neutral tool which can be used for good, but it is also a source of great temptation. It matters what we do with these things and how they affect our relationship with God. Likewise, nationalism and race consciousness are not evil in their essence, but they can be a source of temptation like everything else. The natural instinct to protect your nation and your race is an expression of healthy familial love.
Having a distinct love for your wife and children doesn’t mean that you possess a contrasting hatred for your next-door neighbor. Thus, having a distinct love for your nation and race does not result in the automatic hatred of those who fall outside of these categories of the extended family.
If we are called to honor our father and mother, how can we not, by extension, feel compelled to honor our grandparents, great-grandparents, and our long line of ancestors who extend beyond them as a vast sea of souls? An ocean of witnesses which still belongs to our particular nation. How can we not honor them as their posterity?
There is a hierarchy within our love that is both natural and revelatory. It is natural in the sense that we intuitively give preference to our family, and it is revelatory in that God commands us to order our affection.
These Hierarchical distinctions in love are real, and they are good. You would not give love that is due to your husband or wife to a stranger. You wouldn’t prioritize feeding people on the street, as your own children go hungry. You wouldn’t betray the wishes of your parents for the sake of a man or woman you just met. There are people and communities in our lives which have primacy. God has blessed us with particular responsibilities in our parents, spouses, children, and cousins. Everything has its proper place, order, and time — which the world has lost sense of as it embraces evermore chaos for the sake of a false kindness. Jesus Christ’s salvific work exhibits this order when He ministers to His Hebrew kin first, before spreading the gospel throughout the gentile nations and establishing a covenant with them.
God creates these distinctions when He commands you to love God above your family. We know that He isn’t saying that you should hate your family, because He also commands us to love one another, honor our parents, and love our neighbor. It may be pointed out that Jesus does tell us to hate our family in the Gospel of Luke, in contrast to the love we’re supposed to have for Him.
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
(Luke 14:26)
The Greek word “Miseo” (μισέω), however, which is translated into “hate”, really means “to love less” in this context. The strong language is meant to convey how serious, and sacrificial, we ought to be regarding our love for God.
Inability to appreciate these distinctions in love is symptomatic of a people who have been taught to hate order, propriety, boundaries, exclusions, and restrictions. Which is why we are now seeing the enemies of God successfully contend themselves against the nuclear family — having already murdered our consciousness of nation and race. Piece by piece, the enemy has severed us from our roots: God, family, nation, and race — so that we may be easily torn out and obliterated as rootless bodies and souls.
OUR HOME IS BEING INVADED
There is an effort to genocide the “White” race wherever we live — Europe, America, Australia, South Africa, etc. When we use the term “White,” we are referring to those who are of European stock or descent. As of today, Whites constitute a mere 8% of the world’s population. This small percentage is, in a contrived and systematic fashion, being demographically replaced, disempowered, and killed.
The Encyclopedia of Brittanica defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.”
Raphael Lemkin’s definition is “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group by means such as disintegration of its political and social institutions, culture, language, national feelings, religion, and economic existence.”
How and why (and by whom) this is occurring will be the topic of a future article. Both of these definitions, however, appropriately describe what is occurring to White populations, everywhere.
We need only view the demographic transition of the United States to begin painting the picture.
Prior to the 1960s, Whites had always remained at, or above, 85% of the total United States population. Since the 1960s, when our country’s immigration policies were dramatically reformed, we have seen a harrowing decline in the proportion of the White population. As the percentage of the foreign population increases in our country, the proportion of the White population obviously decreases, because our rate of reproduction cannot outpace the growth of other races via immigration.
U.S. NON-HISPANIC, WHITE POPULATION PERCENTAGE BY YEAR:
1960 - 88.6%
1980 - 79.57%
1990 - 75.64%
2000 - 69.13%
2010 - 63.7%
2020 - 57.8%
According to a report published by the Brookings Institute in 2018, the U.S. is projected to become a “minority White” country by 2045. Given the unprecedented levels of immigration since 2020, however, this demographic reversal may take place several years ahead of schedule.
Father Elpidios Vagianakis speaks to the reality of this “great replacement” when he gave a talk entitled “The Plans of the Pentarchy of Darkness,” wherein he describes how the enemy, and his servants, have put the entirety of the world into subjugation.
“… here in our homeland, and in many Christian countries, everything has been shaped by the tremendous influence of Christian life and Christian preaching. As a result, these five satanic patriarchs of darkness cannot impose their thoughts, ideology, and goals on the world as they wish.
So now, what do they use instead? They use population manipulation. How will they achieve this? By creating wars elsewhere or internal conflicts, such as civil wars, and by promoting illegal immigration. Knowing that Christians, who have compassion for the suffering, will show mercy to those in need, they exploit this. They created internal conflicts, forcing many people to flee their homelands and enter Christian countries. However, these Christian countries are not receiving Christians, but Muslims and people of other religions, resulting in a dilution of the demographic situation in these nations.
To give you a simple example: we, as a nation, are about 9-10 million people. At this moment, out of 10 million, there are 2.5-3.5 million illegal immigrants. Some are documented, others are not. You understand, I say, the dilution. And what do they tell us? “You know, you must avoid racism, and to avoid racism, you must integrate these illegal immigrants into your society.” But these illegal immigrants are not just ordinary people. They are people with heavy burdens who, at this moment, seek to destroy not only our faith but also to change the very nature of our nation.
That’s why, in the future, we will see many such concerns expressed, but we will also witness the revolts of these illegal immigrants who will demand their own rights, their own temples, which will become centers of their revolution. All of this is being done with great skill by these Patriarchs of Darkness, who cannot tolerate our Christian existence, our Christian life. They are waging war because Satan himself is at war with Christ, fighting against our Christian existence. That’s why they want to demographically destroy the Christian nations. You will soon hear how the state is being diluted to such an extent that we will not know if, soon, the Christian identity and the Christian faith will still exist as it does now.
At the same time, fear will spread greatly among Christians because, whenever they revolt and say, “What is this you are doing?” the others will create such terrible vengeful situations, killing Christians and causing great problems for Christian communities. This fear will cause many to remain neutral at first, and later, they may even abandon everything. You will see this. This has already started in our homeland.”
— Father Elpidios Vagianakis
Fr Elpidios’ statement points to the close association Christianity has with the White race throughout the world. Our people are hated and attacked not only on the basis of our blood, but also on account of our devotion to Christ and His commandments. Despite our increasing apostasy (encouraged by the same enemy), we are hated nevertheless for the deeply-seeded and residual effect Christianity has left upon the histories and cultures of our race. Those who claim to be “culturally conservative” in our country, though they may deny being nominally Christian, adhere, perhaps unconsciously, to a Christian moral framework that persists within our nation.
It is a fact that the enemy hates the blood of Christ more than they hate the blood of our race. That they hate both, however, is undeniable, and they have a vested interest in replacing these two bloods and their union.
The US government, and the NGOs it works with, became so emboldened throughout the Biden Administration, that they began flooding entire towns over night with thousands of immigrants from the third world. Charleroi, Pennsylvania, a small town with a population of 4,000 in 2022, has seen a 2,000% increase in its population, over the past two years, caused by an influx of Haitian migrants. Similarly, in just three years, Springfield, Ohio — an economically beleaguered town of 60,000 — experienced an influx of 20,000 unassimilable Haitian immigrants. Whitewater, Wisconsin, a small all-American town of 15,000, was transformed overnight by the arrival of 1,000 South Americans. Many of the immigrants who have entered in the past decade are either killing Americans in cold-blood, as in the case of Laken Riley, or through incompetence demonstrated by the countless Haitian vehicle incidents. The federal government told Americans affected by Hurricane Helene, one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history, that they no longer had the money for relief efforts after FEMA spent $1.4 billion on migrants. Over time, the problem of mass-immigration will become impossible to ignore. Because of the pervasiveness of this problem, for the first time in decades, the majority of Americans support the limiting of ALL immigration. Mass-immigration, coupled with the promotion of infertility, is the primary method by which they destroy the White race.
When faced with this assault, how are we to respond? A man has a duty to sacrifice himself for his family — both the immediate and the extended. Therefore, what sane man would not want to prevent a genocide against his people? What Greek, in the face of total demographic replacement in his homeland, would remain indifferent? What Russian man would cheer it on without being called a traitor against his people? What Japanese man would wish to see a foreign people invade his shores and assume ethnic dominance? Yet, we are told to shut up and allow it. We are told by our government, our education system, and our media that the great replacement isn’t occurring — while we witness the truth of it all in our everyday lives. They sometimes speak out of the other side of their mouths and admit the truth. “Actually, the great replacement is occurring, but here’s why it’s a good thing.” An increasing number of people cheer on this demographic replacement out of passionate racial resentment. They then go on to justify it by appealing to a fabricated history of our nation, telling us “well, America is a nation of ideas anyway. A melting pot of people. We are not a nation of blood, but of ideals and principles. This is what the founders wanted.” Before coming out and finally admitting, “well, Whites deserve it.”
In short, our homeland is being invaded by millions of foreigners each year, which, if left unabated, will result in the diminishment and death of our people. Violent and non-violent crime is increasing. Resources are strained. Society is breaking down and becoming less cohesive. There is less trust and greater conflict between people, caused by the increase in ethnic diversity. White Americans — the real, prototypical Americans — are being displaced, disempowered, and killed by a foreign people who hold racial grievances against us, no matter how much benevolence we show them. This tragedy is not unique to America, but is taking place within every White nation. Supporting mass immigration into our country does not cultivate a civilization of Godly love and order, but one of chaos and hatred — wholly antithetical to what people appeal to when they support immigration.
MISGUIDED “LOVE”
Despite this rising hatred against White populations, there are some immigration enthusiasts who have a pure, well-intentioned concern for migrants, absent of any ulterior motives or racial animosity against Whites. For them, accepting the foreigner is undoubtedly grounded in an appeal to “love” and “compassion” — begging the question this article attempts to answer. Conversely, they believe that a rejection of the foreigner is “hateful” and “cruel”.
The worldly definition of love, if not ambiguous and arbitrary, strives to make everyone happy and satisfied.
The strongest verse that is appealed to, in support of immigration, is Leviticus 19:33-34.
And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him. The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Yes, we are supposed to treat individual strangers and foreigners with love and respect. This verse, however, is often maliciously stretched beyond its exegetical limits. Usage of this verse against nativists is fallacious for several reasons:
An individual foreigner, or a small number of strangers, does not equate to the millions of immigrants that have entered our country.
It does not state that you ought to allow the foreigner to overcome or mistreat your people.
It presupposes that sending an individual back to their country of origin is cruel. It is not cruel, as the vast majority of immigrants in the U.S. are “economic migrants,” seeking material wealth. Many of them are not fleeing real persecution or suffering, but are merely attracted to our country’s higher standard of living.
Remigration is a form of justice and defense, not offense. There can be no mercy without justice.
God is not stating that borders, or distinctions between peoples, shouldn’t exist. This idea is clearly refuted by Deuteronomy 32:8-9.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He divided mankind, He fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Moreover, the word in the Old Testament Greek Septuagint that was translated into “stranger” is the word “prosélutos.” Prosélutos was used throughout the bible in reference to gentiles who had converted to Judaism, adopting the faith and customs of the Hebrews (i.e. assimilating to their nation). This concept continues today in the Orthodox Christian Church. Foreigners, who are baptized Orthodox Christians, are seen as our siblings in Christ — all while we maintain our respective ethnic distinctions.
As stated before, distinctions and boundaries are not recognized by the modern definition of love. They are actively opposed. Any exclusion or boundary may diminish the happiness or satisfaction of an individual. Thus, according to the world, true love is, in theory, all inclusive, all accepting, all encompassing, and all giving. It is a utopian ideal which can never be put into practice, as it is impossible to live without exclusions, distinctions, or short comings.
Distinctions are not only necessary because they are instituted by God, but they are a product of our finite and fallen world. Food, land, resources, time, and energy are limited. We cannot provide everything for everyone, everywhere. There is an unrealistic, pseudo-Christian expectation that your resources should be distributed to all without reservation, discernment, or prejudice.
For the average person, advocating for immigrants involves no personal sacrifice or effort, the two necessary characteristics of Christian love, but a cold and indifferent permissiveness which cannot be described as love. What’s more, this permissiveness comes at the expense of our own kin — making us worse than the unbelievers (1 Timothy 5:8). Providing for another, at the expense of your own, is not love.
Just as loving your nation does not automatically imply a hatred for the foreigner; accepting the immigrant is not, by default, an expression of love.
Our attempts at love can, quite often, be misguided and bear hideous fruit. It is possible for proponents of immigration to be well-intentioned, while at the same time, unwittingly accelerating the destruction of their own people for the sake of the foreign.
Well-intentioned advocates of immigration are misguided for the following reasons…
Our own people suffer from the effects of mass-immigration.
Not only our people, but the immigrants themselves will suffer if they are brought into a country that is increasingly Godless, dysfunctional, chaotic, and without identity.
If it can be proven that a group of people are intentionally facilitating the genocide of the White race, it would not be loving to be complicit, or to cooperate, in such evil.
We no longer have a cohesive and Godly culture for the immigrants to assimilate into. Conflict and chaos increases as cultural and ethnic diversity increases.
Because our nation has become Godless and materialistic, we are no longer able to spiritually provide for the foreigner. Thus, we abandon them for the same satanic and materialistic society that is preying upon us. As our society continues to collapse, largely due to mass-immigration, we will no longer be able to provide for them materially either.
If immigration is detrimental to our civilization, and contributes to White genocide, then advocating for immigration is both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise.
If true Christian love is a self-sacrificial action toward the spiritual and physical benefit of your neighbor, starting with your family, and if mass-immigration causes societal dysfunction, and is proven to be a weapon used against our race, then opposing immigration can be an expression of true Christian love.
Regarding “love” and “hate,” there is not a 1:1 comparison between how individuals ought to respond to phenomena versus how the collective (nation / state) ought to respond. It is true that the state ought to possess a Christian mindset and govern in love, but that does not practically equate to the individual obligation we have, as Christians, to ignore and forgive personal offenses. The nation’s responsibility is to protect the people who compose it. There is nothing loving about allowing the people for whom you are responsible to be preyed upon and displaced by foreign populations. The nation-state can, once more, be compared to a household. A father would not allow someone to break into his house and take food from the mouths of his hungry children. If the same intruder encountered the father alone in the street, however, and stole food from the father’s hands, the Christian obligation would be to turn the other cheek, as it was a personal offense which did not harm anyone outside of himself.
Immigration ought to be tolerated by a nation insofar as it does not affect the fabric of the nation’s civilization. The present day United States, however, is very far from this ideal. If America is not made of quintessential Americans, it is no longer America. And if it does not possess a majority demographic core, but an array of opposing nations in constant conflict for power and resources — we will no longer be capable of helping anyone, as a state, in any meaningful sense.
CONCLUSION: CHRIST OVER EVERYTHING
How are we, as Christians, supposed to respond to this existential threat facing our family, nation, and race? Firstly, Christ must have primacy in our hearts, over everything. Our love for Christ must supersede our love for family, nation, and race (Matthew 10:37). We can only truly love the latter, if we love the former.
Secondly, nothing occurs without the will of God. As White nations have turned away from God and embraced sin, God has allowed us to be delivered into the hands of our enemies for our chastisement; just as Old Testament Israel was repeatedly conquered by foreigners upon nearly every instance of its abandonment of God. We must have an understanding that God not only blesses, but He also chastises; as a father lovingly chastises his children in order to correct them. Thus, the solution is to correct course: becoming one with Christ’s body in the Orthodox Christian Church, turning to God in repentance, praying, following God’s commandments, and partaking of the Holy Mysteries. This knowledge of God’s righteous chastisement will help us to remain sober in our effort to defend the nation. Like the Maccabees, we will continue fight whilst knowing that our eventual victory, or defeat, is in God’s hands.
As God’s will is in heaven, so He will do.
(1 Maccabees 3:60)
Thirdly, St Paul tells us to, “be angry and sin not” (Ephesians 4:26). Though we are in a non-kinetic war for the survival of our race, we must work to resist sin with all of our strength. As stated before, having a consciousness of nationalism and race may make one susceptible to personal hatred for the foreign. While we resist the enemy, we must struggle to resist sin. The Christian Church understands that those who fight in war, even if it is a blessed and righteous one, always incur spiritual wounds when battling their corporeal enemies. Therefore, we must rely upon the discernment and the spiritual salve of the Orthodox Church. Sin inevitably stains all of those who, of necessity, wrestle against flesh in the world. Christ, and His Church, are there to cleanse us.
Over time, love has lost all of its depth of meaning, and has come to mean what others can give you in terms of feeling and experience. The new, worldly definition of love is selfish, carnal, and superficial, while its antithesis includes any manifestation of force, distinction, exclusion, imposition, or righteous judgement. As such, we are told to allow all sorts of affronts to God, and neighbor, out of “love”. This is not true Christian love, however, because permissiveness in all things works against the salvation of those around us.
Opposing mass-immigration is a valid expression of love for your neighbor and nation. Supporting mass-immigration is not, by default, an expression of Christian love because of its material & spiritual passivity, and impersonal nature. It contains no self- sacrifice, but a sacrifice of your nation on behalf of the ego. Cheering on such unprecedented demographic shifts is a form of gross negligence towards your kin.
To say that you shouldn’t have a special love or devotion for your nation or race is akin to saying that you shouldn’t have a particular devotion or obligation to your immediate family.
Loving your own people, and wanting to preserve your family, entails some form of necessary exclusions. These exclusions do not logically imply hatred for the other. Nobody wants to live in a place that does not feel like home, populated by an array of people who are entirely unlike themselves in language, culture, temperament, and spirit.
These exclusions may be uncomfortable, but deportations, restrictions on immigration, and enforcement of the law can be conducted while respecting the dignity of those being deported or excluded. Likewise, we can individually love, and give alms to, people of other nations all while expecting them to remigrate. It is also possible to exclude immigrants while simultaneously helping them in their own country through trade, missions, diplomacy, and charity.
True Christian love is self-sacrifice for the sake of your neighbor’s spiritual and physical wellbeing. Providing for another at the expense of your own kin, however, cannot be characterized as Christian love.