But basically you’re saying, screw over a bunch of people who possibly deserve a chance because there are a few bad eggs. You claim pro-migrants want an all or nothing. Anti-migrants simply want nothing. On the other hand, if you look at bills/actions proposed/supported by pro-migrants activists, you’ll often find them fairly in the middle, until recently. Bills like the DREAM Act have been on the table for nearly a decade with no movement. Eventually everyone gets tired and says enough is enough, give us what we deserve. And I mean exactly that: deserve. I, and people like me, deserve a chance to stay.

You mention the unfortunate side effect is that bright and promising students get stuck because of this… since when do Americans accept collateral damage as an unavoidable part of fights? I thought we were above such pettiness. There are ways to get the right people in and keep the wrong people out. But as soon as people here “pro-immigration” or “amnesty” suddenly their thoughts jump to the same hateful things your site promotes, without every considering the positive aspects, thanks to sites like yours.

Regardless, thanks for reading and commenting.

You mention that transcription being a huge game of telephone. Let us not forget that it is played over numerous languages. In fact, when you look at the Old Testament in Koine, you’ll notice how the Judaic concept of “love” as being chosen by God is transliterated as ‘agape,’ not substituted. You also see other concepts of “love” (more human concepts like sexual, personal, and familial love) utilize the word ‘eros.’

This distinction does not transfer over to St. Augustine’s interpretation and his mentor’s (his name escapes me) translation of it into Latin. Both ‘agape’ and ‘eros’ are translated as ‘amore.’ Then, you have Augustine blathering on about something that looks very suspiciously like Platonic thought, of a “love” of God by man (not of God TO man as is implied by “chosen”). The direction of love is reversed. In fact, this misinterpretation is one of the big reasons Protestantism came around.

Thanks to Dr. James T. Johnson of the Rutgers Religion Dept. for that. He explained this in his “Love as an Ethic and Idea” class.

I thought you might appreciate that tidbit as a good explanation of “man’s fallibility.”

The point of all this? Equality in the US does not come naturally. It’s a tug-of-war, fought tooth and nail by both sides, until the majority is finally dragged over to the side of rightness and fairness through the use of governmental mechanisms put in place by the founding fathers.