Fake Conversions Justifying Incoming Migrants in England


Not only are large numbers of people crossing borders into the U.S., it is happening in Europe as well. There is concern in England about the large number who are using conversion to Christianity as justification for official admittance. Many former jail and prison inmates in the U.S.  have admitted to converting in order to get a chaplain's endorsement for parole. Christianity has its dark side.

The clergy in the U.K. have assured officials that all Muslims converted to Christianity "are sincere." The problem is even more complicated because refugees sometimes claim they are under attack back home because they are gay and need to leave for their own protection. The opportunity to lie is everywhere. 

I wonder if and when an atheist, or fake atheist, will use atheism to gain the confidence of other atheists and exploitate them. Surely it has happened, but the stories are always about Christians. Perhaps the skepticism that causes atheists to doubt Christianity spills over and makes them wary of other propaganda. That might be wishful thinking on my part.  

While everyone has had their own experiences in life and uses those experiences to generalize about life around us, mine has been that Christianity has more than its share of dishonesty. When I was a Mayor and watched the early days of protestors at our local abortion clinic, I wondered how a person calling himself a Christian could walk around with the picture of baby, obviously a while after birth, and imply the picture was of a fetus. There remains dishonesty about when a human being's life begins. "Birth centers" which try to talk women out of abortions have been known to give women false information about how far along their pregnancy it, hoping the woman will believe she will not qualify for an abortion. False information about gays and children raised by gay people still is circulated by Christians. Don't get me started on Bishops that moved priests who were child molesters from one parish to another rather than tell law enforcement. 

The border problem is complicated without con jobs from religions. Perhaps it is inevitable imaginary gods would lead to imaginary conversions. 

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