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What Scripture Really Says About Dividing Families
https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/19/what-scripture-really-says-about-dividing-families/Political Wire
What Scripture Really Says About Dividing Families
June 19, 2018 at 8:00 am EDT
By Taegan Goddard
The Economist: “American commentators both religious and secular have been digging deep into the Bible over the past week. They have been searching for answers to the claim by Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, that a new practice of separating parents and children at the Mexican border is founded in holy writ.”
“People who really want to raise the stakes in this scriptural to-and-fro might consider turning to a verse in Matthew’s Gospel which warns of the dire consequences that may befall anybody who does spiritual harm to children.”
If anyone causes one of these little ones…to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
