Ann Coulter blasts claim that 'welcoming the stranger' applies to immigration: 'Total fake, phony frauds'
'This has nothing to do with Christianity'
Quick Summary
- Ann Coulter criticizes the claim that 'welcoming the stranger' applies to immigration.
- Coulter labels proponents of this view as 'total fake, phony frauds.'
- She argues that the U.S. must protect its identity as the 'last Christian country.'
Conservative political commentator and author Ann Coulter recently dismissed the increasingly common assertion from some Christians that the Bible's commands regarding personal hospitality apply to U.S. immigration policy.
During a Feb. 18 interview with two college students at the Delaware-based Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Coulter also suggested that Christian leaders who promote such an idea are simply doing so because they crave the approval of the liberal cultural elite.
"I think they're total fake, phony frauds," she said of such people. "They want to be praised in The New York Times. This has nothing to do with Christianity."
Coulter, whose 2015 book about illegal immigration, Adios, America, was published the same month President Donald Trump first announced his candidacy, went on to warn that the U.S. is effectively the last Christian country, and that the rest of the world will suffer if it crumbles into a morass of unassimilated cultures and ethnic conflicts.
"They ought to consider that this is the last Christian country on Earth," she said. "And once we're gone, it's over. It's lights out for the globe."
While forgetting his name, Coulter appeared to single out former SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore, whom she described as "loathsome."
"I don't see him taking homeless people into his house," Coulter said of Moore. "This is our house, this is our home, this is our family. You have to protect your home. It doesn't mean you befoul your space."
Coulter warned the U.S. will not "be able to help anyone" if the tensions that have engulfed parts of Minnesota amid the mass importation of Somali immigrants is permitted to sweep the rest of the country.
"Different tribes from Somalia, they're getting in huge fights [in Minnesota]," she said. "Oh, that's fantastic. Let's bring everybody's ethnic conflicts to our country. Great. That's going to be great."
"No, we've got enough problems. We got to save our country, and we are the last Christian country on Earth," she added, clarifying that while someone doesn't have to be a Christian to be an American, the history and political system of the U.S. have been steeped in Protestantism from the beginning.
Coulter's theological position echoed that of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who explained the biblical basis of immigration law, borders and national sovereignty earlier this month. His answer was in response to a reporter's question about Pope Leo XIV citing Matthew 25:35 last fall to opine on U.S. immigration policy.
Johnson, a Southern Baptist, claimed the Bible's moral imperatives for personal conduct do not necessarily apply in the same way to the civil magistrate, who is deputized by God to enforce the law. He also noted that "borders and walls are biblical," and that assimilation was expected from immigrants even under Old Testament law.
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"You're supposed to take care of the sojourner and the neighbor, treat them as yourself, welcome them in, yes," said Johnson. "But that is an admonition to individuals, not to the civil authorities."
Citing Romans 13, Johnson said civil authorities "are given authority under Scripture to maintain order," and that they are "God's agents of wrath to bring punishment upon the wrongdoer."
"It's a calling to maintain order in society, and we have not had that," he added, offering the chaos that has resulted from the millions of unvetted immigrants pouring across the U.S. border under the Biden administration as an example of what happens when the civil authority fails to fulfill its God-given role.
Johnson's view was also promulgated by the late Charlie Kirk, who also noted that the Bible expects assimilation and warned in Deuteronomy 28:43-45 that being overrun and ultimately ruled by foreigners is a sign of divine judgment.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
