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J.D. Vance, Haitian Immigrants, and Christians Who Refuse to Love Their Neighbor
We all live within two stories: the story we tell ourselves about who we are, and the story our actions tell.
As the sickening and intentional myths of Haitian immigrants eating animals in Springfield, Ohio perpetuated by Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance engulfed the nation, they revealed with sickening clarity how many professed followers of Jesus have lost the ability or willingness to love their neighbor—at least, not when that neighbor doesn’t resemble them.
Without factual information or quantifiable data of any kind, these supposedly faithful people allowed themselves to…
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