What about Immigrant Evangelicals?

Salguero's message is clear in this article...."Love your neighbor as I have loved you." The issue and debate of immigration will never go away, why? This is a country of immigrants. I am amazed that people forget that one detail. If New York is the melting pot and the Statue of Liberty expresses "Give us you poor, huddled masses"...what does that say about this country? Thank you Pastor Salguero for reminding us that our neighbors include everyone including those that come here for a better life.

There is a big difference between spirituality and religion. Spirituality doesn’t have any dogma, fiction, or perversion. Spirituality is simply based on everything being connected and part of one body, with One Being behind it all. This is what Jesus A Christ was trying to communicate. It is that simple.

Politics being how various needs and wants are expressed and met or obtained how combined efforts are implemented and what joint ventures are formed and funded. Politics should include the view that we are all one; part of the same body. Religion should not be involved in Politics because it has become perverse in the eyes of the Lord it has become the house of hypocrisy not the House of God.

What is disturbing is how fast both candidates were swept into the Illusion, each not daring to question the popular fiction.

CHURCH: a body or organization of religious believers

FAITH: a system of religious beliefs

There is no difference yet neither candidate questioned it and was able to see through the Illusion created by Rick Warren. In other words he was propagating a fiction.

RELIGION IS AN EGO CREATION NOT ONE OF SPIRIT - scripture says and we are warned that the Churches (institutionalized religion) are the Antichrist; which must be true if we have Faith in Scripture?

McCain with his understandable doubts about the existence of a God resulting from his experience in prison camp, and Obama doesn’t really buy the Jesus died for our sins crap.

Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. Furthermore the Christians should be thanking the Jews for crucifying Jesus since their act actually redeemed Christians, Jesus could have just committed suicide to die for your sins right?
What this character Jesus did was refuse to buy into the worlds fictions and he set the ultimate example of being steadfast in the truth.

Religion is one big fiction, and it was people protecting The Religion that crucified Jesus because he questioned the fiction and saw through it.

So if anyone really wants to honor Jesus, start ripping the fictions apart with your rational logical discerning minds and live steadfast in the truth, don’t sell out to the ego empire.

Remember a divided people are a weak people. This is what allows 10,000 to take advantage and make subservient the other 300 million people in the United States.

Religion is being used to divide you amongst your selves, in the US and other countries. It is one of the most effective weapons of the source disconnected ego to protect it's fictional world. Religion is a behavioral control mechanism a producer of shame, guilt and irrational conformity.

Most people have no idea what love is, because love that comes with a condition is not love. There is only one source of love, and one can choose to be a channel for it or not.

Why die and go to Heaven when you can bring it to you?

If I recall correctly Jesus once said something like “I am in your world but not of your world”. He was speaking of the world of fiction that most are living in which still persists today but looks like it is in it's end days and the Ego empire is going to fall.

Divine Source connected - Ego Divine
Divine Source disconnected - Ego Bastard

Yes, faith meaning trust is a verb not a noun. The word has been perverted by the Ego and made into a false idol.

Burkhard:

You assume that Rev. Salguero does not comprehend the complexity of developing countries in Latin America and all over the world. Simply because he ask those questions does not mean he does not feel that leaders in Latin America should not be held accountable.
Moreover, you do not know what Rev. Salguero works on or promotes. You cannot assume his questions about leadership in Latin America by what he asked U.S. leaders. The forum was about U.S. presidents and what you would ask them not about other countries responsibilities. I am sure if those were the issues he would have a different set of questions. In short, it is a huge assumption to accuse anyone of whining and hypocrisy based on a specific context with a specific audience and leaders in mind. Rev. Salguero never said that only global north countries can address this complex issue. He simply is asking what is the role of U.S. leaders in dealing with this complex issue. If this where a different context your assumptions and pre-judgment may be justified. Since it is clearly not your comments are simply speculation and conjecture on where Rev. Salguero stands concerning Latin American governments and societies. It is unfortunate that you feel the need to make these assumptions without knowing his position. This is indeed "judging things without having all the details."

Immigrant Evangelicals get screwed, because they lose on both counts, If we are to believe that a President has to be compassionate. How then do you justify deportation and discrimination in legislation towards immigrants. Why this debate was agreed to before the conventions and any other debate is beyond me. It's the I am holier than thou syndrome. I have never in my life seen anyone dismiss the horrendous pain that John McCain inflicted on his first wife, in one sentence. actually two words... end of story.
Rick Warren.....
"How was it like in the CONE OF SILENCE "
John McCain....
"I tried to put my head against the wall to see if I could hear any of the answers" Laugh Laugh
It's not the deed ... it's the cover up.... Why is the McCain camp all riled up ? He cheated.
Why wasn't his answer " You know Rick... I have to be honest... but he wasn't.

Immigartion issues should only be addressed in the context of the complte moral failure of latina american societies and govenrments.
Their ianbility to secure a strong system of the rule of law and property rights. With marginal exceptions such as Chile and Costa Rica really don't see anything that these govenrments have done for their people. Brazil is somewhat of a hope but still a very long way for any larger middle clas to be formed. Mexico is a complete embarrassment in any category I can think of.
As a latino (Venezuela) I am getting tired of the hypocrisy and whining uttered by so called latino represntatives. It is time we plug the log of our own exy before we try to take the slinter of the northern eye.
Gabriel - why don't you help promote casas por christo and other development help? Why does it always take americans to get these kinds of works going?