Finally, Truth From Chris Mathews.

Shouldn't you be posting your argument that every African American in the U.S. today should get their "40 acres and a mule"?

Considering I never made that argument, I think @Paladin's right and you're about to

Not surprising, coming from someone who's aroused at the thought of millions of people dying in war.

That argument would be perfectly consistent with your apparent view that modern American citizens are somehow obligated to welcome immigrants today just because their ancestors came from overseas as well.

But to say I actually made that argument is an outright lie. Do you believe Jesus knows what you post, Dayton? What would he say about lying?

What about all those people who lived before Christ? Isn't kind of sadistic for a god to say everyone will burn in hell for all eternity without Christ yet not bother to tell them for a very long time?

Distinction without a difference Garamet

I suppose you could be right about that, Dayton, but then perhaps your view is analogous to saying we should return to legal slavery. There are two directions -- more liberty and less liberty. I choose more, it is the American way after all. Case closed.

So Jesus doesn't care if you lie.

It is my understanding that those who lived before Christ will be saved if they obeyed the commands in the Old Testament aside from those directed specifically at Jews.

Hope that helps.

Obligated to welcome immigrants? Not at all what Garamet was implying.
Hypocritical for not welcome immigrants? Probably a bit closer to the truth.

But he only told Jews and no one else on Earth? What about people in Australia or the New World who had absolutely no way to hear about it? Talk about setting them up for failure.

How is it hypocritical? I'm not an immigrant. Neither were my parents, grandparents, great grand parents, or great great grandparents.

That's five generations right there. How long does any kind of moral obligation last? Everything ends.

Presumably, for as long as you're still reaping the benefits of the situation in question.

The only benefits I'm going to reap is the money and land I inherit from my dad.

He inherited NOTHING from his father who was no great shakes when it came to business and economics.

So you don't reap any benefits from living in this country?

It lasts longer than that. The answer to Dayton's question is that it lasts as long as it fits the concept of morality. I'd say that Emma Lazarus had it right:

It's integral to the American creed. Dayton hates America.

It says "yearning to breathe free".

Not "dreaming of breaking into a place in order to make more money".

And yet, you would prefer that they suffocate, so the question of what happens once they are here is irrelevant from your point of view.

Huh??

The second part of your statement is never tested if we ignore the huddled masses. I'm not surprised that you don't understand. It's because you hate America.

It's like the "Save the Unborn Babies...but we don't care what happens to them once they're born" movement.

I see:

Because not wanting people killed automatically means indefinite responsibility for them for their entire lives

No.

His mental switches are all binary.
You don't fix that.
I mean, you could TRY to go in, and replace the switches with dimmer knobs, but like putting a gigahertz CPU on a 1995 motherboard, it would kill him.