This is precisely the nonsense of the Christian right that underscores their duplicitous and hypocritical behavior contrary to their professed faith of embracing all. It is statements like these that reveal the ugly truth of those who would intermix their view of Christianity with government as a dominant controlling force. Such idiocy floods social media.

Now let’s be clear, this is not the majority of Christians. But it is a frighteningly significant number. For those of you who played down the significance of Project 2025 and believed President-elect Trump’s claim of unfamiliarity with the project and its stated intents, the recent round of appointments including many who participated in developing Project 2025 should put that lie to rest.

Read for yourself, https://www.project2025.org/policy/. Here’s another gem.

The goals are clear and this is another example of what such programs will create. It will begin with postings like this on social media encouraging people to turn in individuals having no basis or evidence to support their contention. And it will progress to mob mentality of rounding up those who are perceived as different.

It reminds me of the reaction by the Pope (another Christian government) to the Merovingian Heresy and the later demise of the Templars from which we get the curse of Friday the 13th. A Papal army was sent to wipe out the heretics. When asked how to tell the Christians from the heretics, the commanding general said, “Kill them all, God will recognize his own.” In the case of the Templars, all that mattered was their association (similarity of appearance) to the Templars and they were tortured until they confessed to heresy and were killed.

We run the risk of engaging in similar behavior out of a sense that the goal justifies the means. We may not be intentionally killing anyone directly, but indirectly sentencing them to die if we ignore our own laws on asylum.

This has happened before with the focus being on those of a specific religion and history reflects what happened when that took hold.

To be clear, those who enter the country unlawfully should be deported. Those who entered the country seeking asylum need be treated fairly under existing law. The issue is a matter of resources, not encouraging those who would treat anyone they perceive as different than their image of an American to become vigilantes.

The risk of innocent American citizens, or innocent children brought here by parents seeking a better life, being caught up in the hysteria of deportation policies is high. That is not American and it is not Christian.

Mr. Trump has vowed to use Executive Orders and the resources of the military to accomplish his goal. There is precedent for such actions, Executive Order 9066.

Those of you who understand history will recognize the horrors and injustice that action caused.

Some of you will take the time to look it up, others will ignore history, precedent, and even their own professed Christian tenets of “do unto others” and willingly lockstep along. They will cheer this on while history repeats itself.