Liberation theology vs. actual theology: Why illegal immigration is a biblical issue



Abortion and transgenderism are clearly theological issues but what about illegal immigration? Does the Bible have anything to say about illegal immigrants, border walls, or mass deportations?

Some Christians point to Jesus’ words in Matthew 22:39 — “Love your neighbor as yourself” — as evidence that we should welcome what the Democrats euphemistically call “the undocumented” into our country with open arms.

“A lot of you, because you grew up in the era of Hawaiian shirts, pleated khakis, and sweater vests, have been taught that [rejecting illegal immigration] violates loving your neighbor as you love yourself,” says Steve Deace.

These people, Deace explains, have likely been captured by liberation theology — a neo-Marxist, Catholic theological approach born in Latin America that focuses on political liberation of oppressed peoples, placing an emphasis on social activism over doctrine.

It’s heretical.

Deace points out that the current pope, who’s of course “surrounded by his own private army” and lives “in a gated community,” regularly champions the idea that “it’s not Christian to have borders.”

Now that Catholicism in Latin countries has fused with liberation theology, how then did Donald Trump, who heavily staked his campaign on mass deportations, win over more Hispanic voters than any Republican candidate in history?

“What happened was, we went from people who just came here to pick our berries and make our beds in our hotels” to “an entire generation born and bred in Latin American Catholicism by liberation theology,” says Deace, adding that these people “believe they are entitled” to be here.

“The generation of people who came here in the '80s and '90s to pick the berries and make the beds and mow the lawns ... they’ve now worked their way up,” and they’re mortified by the people who are coming here to “collect a welfare check” because “they view themselves as entitled.”

On top of that, the Bible does explicitly address illegal immigration.

“Are there mass deportations in the Bible? Are there walls built by God’s people to secure their borders?” Steve asks rhetorically.

“Yes! In fact, there’s an entire book called Nehemiah. That’s literally all the book is about,” he says. “They mass deport people who don’t belong in the country, including women and children ... and they literally go to war with their neighbors to rebuild a wall to secure their borders."

“So the answer is yes.”

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Pro-life vs. abolition: Which way will the church go?



While pro-lifers and abolitionists claim to have the exact same goal, there are clear differences. Jeff Durbin of the Apologia Church calls himself the latter — and for good reason.

“There’s a difference, and this is what everyone who identifies as pro-life needs to hear. When you see, hear, the terminology ‘pro-life,’ it’s just ‘for life.’ ‘I’m for life, not for choice, not pro-abortion, I’m for life,’” Durbin explains. “So there’s nothing bad about the terminology, and we’re not decrying like the typical person who’s a Christian in the pew saying, ‘I’m pro-life.’”

“They just think, ‘We’re trying to abolish abortion, we’re trying to end this thing at this injustice.’ They don’t know what’s going on. Many of them in the background, many pastors are ignorant of this as well. There’s a difference between the pro-life establishment, the pro-life industry, and the average Christian who says ‘I’m pro-life,’” he continues.

Durbin tells Deace that the pro-life establishment and the pro-life industry are “the greatest [enemies] to the abolition of abortion right now in our nation.”


“Those in the establishment are proud. They brag on the fact that they are not approaching this issue from a Christian standpoint,” he explains.

“They’re approaching it from a biological standpoint. In other words, they’ll say things like, ‘If we could just prove to the world that what’s in the womb is human from fertilization, we could just show these mothers the baby and the heartbeat and the baby moving around, then they won’t want to kill these babies anymore.’”

“If we assume their motivations are good, they are thinking this is a question of a critical mass of evidence, and you guys would say this is actually a question of authority,” Deace comments.

“It’s a question of authority, it’s a question of worldview, and ultimately, I would say, it’s a sin issue,” Durbin responds. “We are in a place as a nation where people love the idea of a mother being able to execute her child in the womb at will, that she has the freedom to do that, that it’s a moral right; it is a noble thing; it is a good thing.”

“So the problem ultimately with abortion in our nation, according to the Christian worldview, according to the word of God, it’s a problem of sin; it’s not a problem of a lack of evidence or a lack of light,” he continues.

While Durbin acknowledges that the coercion of women to get abortions is of course a massive problem, he believes the pro-life establishment’s position on abortion is keeping that alive “by not giving equal protection to the child.”

“So the issue is sin. The issue is rebellion. Child sacrifice is a very serious sin that’s existed throughout the history of humanity. I mean, at times, people were taking their children and throwing them into the fire so they would have blessings and financial prosperity,” he explains, adding, “it’s as old as the hills.”

“The establishment says, ‘We can’t approach this issue with the word of God, with the authority of Christ. We can’t call people to repentance and faith. We can’t make this about the gospel,’” he continues. “So, the abolitionists say, ‘The Christian message here is that first and foremost this is sin against God. God demands justice for these children.’ God’s standards are very clear here.”

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Here’s what we do about the allegations against Matt Gaetz



Every single one of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks has been followed by immediate wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left, but the award for the most controversial pick goes to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is nominated to the role of attorney general.

Steve Deace, however, is “here for it” — not just for the appointment of Gaetz but for the full panel Trump has chosen to be in his administration and their collective mentality to “[bring] this whole thing down.”

“This is Hulk smash,” says Deace in reference to Trump’s appointees.

However, “this Cabinet appointment of Gaetz is the biggest middle-finger appointment in the history of the U.S. presidency,” he says.

While Steve isn’t sure if Gaetz is “a righteous person,” as “there are serious [sex trafficking] allegations against [him],” he also knows that this DOJ has no qualms about “indicting Republicans or conservatives,” especially the anti-establishment type.

If the allegations against Gaetz, who is undeniably a firebrand, are true, why hasn’t he been indicted already?

Steve says that there are two possibilities here: One, “this Department of Justice knowingly allowed a creeper to sit in a congressional seat for the last few years.” Or two, “they don’t have the goods, and they’re smearing [Gaetz].”

However, Steve says there’s “a way we get clarity.”

“Let’s have a confirmation hearing. … Why don’t we just call witnesses, [Gaetz] calls his, people testify, and let’s find out?” he proposes.

Some may think that a hearing is impossible now that Gaetz has resigned his congressional seat and Congress no longer has jurisdiction over him, but Steve says the investigators can “still release their report.”

“Are you guys just sick of being told stuff but never being shown stuff?” Steve asks in frustration. “I sure as hell am.”

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To our leftist countrymen, we will punish you with SUCCESS



We need a massive policy redirection in the United States of America — and lucky for all of us, Donald Trump has promised to provide just that.

But not everyone is happy about this outcome, and some are even terrified.

“To our leftist countrymen who are despondent at this moment in time over the coming Trumpian reign of terror, I want you to know there is no mercy,” Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show” says.

“Mercy is for the weak. I offer you no words of comfort for your fear, no words to comfort you otherwise. In fact, I think your fear is legitimate, if anything, it’s not pronounced enough. It’s not palpable enough. I think you should prepare yourselves for a looming reckoning,” he warns.


“We will have our vengeance in this life or the next,” he adds.

But what will this vengeance look like?

“We will cut, maybe even slash your taxes, the cost of living, interest rates, and inflation. No mercy for your disobedience. Your borders will be secure. Mercy is for the weak. For all of your coercive tyranny, we will no longer allow unregulated bio-pharmaceutical industries to bombard you with inducing propaganda to take experimental toxins,” Deace explains.

Not only will the economy start to boom, but the food you eat will no longer be poisoned.

“We will no longer force you to try to sound out the words on the back of everything you eat because you cannot pronounce them, let alone count the amount of ingredients on that can. We will go as far as to make you healthier against your own will,” he continues before moving on to the most fearsome police.

“We will deploy brigades of police, fully armed, armed to the teeth in fact, into your cities where you live, and they will begin rounding up, indeed, they will begin rounding up all of the criminals unleashed in your blue cities and imprisoning them before they do you harm,” Deace says.

“We will go to your safe spaces, in the places where your women reside, and the places where your women are vulnerable, and we will take advantage of such situations as conquerors of old have done, and we will cleanse those spaces and impose our masculine patriarchal will in those spaces upon your women by making sure there are no bearded ladies, chicks with Adam's apples, and dudes who belong in a padded cell creeping their spaces. And there will be no exceptions to this,” he adds.

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Kamala peacefully transferred power to ‘literally Hitler’— and it makes no sense



President Donald Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide victory — and after a period of silence, Kamala Harris has given her concession speech.

Harris gave her speech at Howard University, which is her alma mater.

“It was an interesting chain of events because last night, very quiet, didn’t say a word. They had this crowd waiting for her and they actually had one of her campaign staffers who had to come up to the mic and say, ‘She’s not– go home,’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“Very strange that she wouldn’t even speak, and it makes you wonder what was going on there,” she adds.


Harris reportedly did end up calling Donald Trump by phone to concede and had a “pleasant conversation” with the president-elect. However, when she gave her concession speech to the public, she was 20 minutes late.

“I know folks are feeling and experiencing a range of emotions right now, I get it, but we must accept the results of this election,” Harris began, noting that she would “help him and his team with their transition” and “we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.”

Gonzales finds the whole thing quite “interesting.”

“All of a sudden she’s like, ‘No, I mean, he won fair and square and we need to acknowledge that.’ Well, you didn’t acknowledge it last night. So, were you too drunk or were you waiting to find out if you guys could figure out how you could find the votes?” Gonzales says.

“It’s very strange to hear her ... intentionally go along to get along. ‘It’s going to be peaceful, we’re going to do this the nice way,’” she continues.

“Why would you want a peaceful transfer of power with literally Hitler?” Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show” chimes in, adding, “why would you concede it all to fascism?”

“I think that ultimately, they either believe these talking point, which is devastating in it’s own right, or they don’t, but they are so craving for power that they will cynically, nihilistically inject that venom and poison into our cultural lexicon and pit us against one another,” he adds.

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Blaze hosts react: Why Trump’s VICTORY is nothing short of a ‘miracle’



Last night was undoubtedly one of the most incredible nights in United States history.

As Kamala Harris’ so-called “blue wall” collapsed, and Donald Trump gained the lead in several key battleground states, Americans across the country sat glued to their televisions and refreshing their X feeds to see if we’d have endless war or affordable groceries.

Glenn Beck believes the outcome is nothing short of a miracle.

“We are truly living something that is going to be read about for a very, very long time,” Glenn tells the BlazeTV panel. “We’re sitting here, witnessing something, I think a miracle, is something that most Americans have never seen before.”


“Most Americans have not lived through a candidate being persecuted like Donald Trump has been, and then shot, and called Hitler for six years, and then wins an election,” he adds.

While Kamala has yet to concede, some Democrats who were extremely vocal against Donald Trump have congratulated him on the presidency, including Mark Cuban — who Trump had recently called a loser and a bad golfer.

“Congrats @realDonaldTrump. You won fair and square. Congrats to @elonmusk as well. #Godspeed,” Cuban wrote in a post on X after Pennsylvania was called for the former president.

“Mark Cuban, who just five minutes ago was telling us that all women who supported Trump or surrounded Trump were, you know, weak and stupid,” Sara Gonzales comments.

However, one of the most exciting social media posts belonged to Elon Musk, who moments after Trump’s victory posted, “You are the media now.”

“It’s true,” Glenn says in response. “They’ve eviscerated themselves.”

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New York Times and Media Matters team up to censor BlazeTV hosts and other conservatives



The New York Times and the leftist outfit Media Matters dropped complementary hit pieces Thursday, accusing BlazeTV hosts Steve Deace, Mark Levin, and Jason Whitlock — along with various other prominent voices in conservative media, including Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and Lara Trump — of "election misinformation."

The apparent aim of this coordinated attack, which the Washington Post did its part to reinforce, is to pressure the Google-owned platform YouTube to demonetize or possibly even deplatform Democrats' ideological opponents before Election Day.

"Being lumped in with those fine fellows, and being labeled an enemy number one from the official Pravda of the regime, is truly the greatest honor of my career," Deace told Blaze News.

'It defines "false claims" and "election misinformation" so broadly.'

Times reporter Nico Grant gave the plot away in advance when asking Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, and Mike Davis of the Article III Project on Monday about their respective memberships in the YouTube Partner Program, their track records of demonetization, and history of notes from YouTube regarding "misinformation."

Grant, whom Carlson told to "f*** off," indicated that Media Matters, a leftist organization founded by Democratic operative David Brock that is presently being sued by Elon Musk for alleged defamation, identified "286 YouTube videos between May and August that contained election misinformation, including narratives that have been debunked or are not supported with credible evidence."

Blaze News previously reached out to the Times and Media Matters for a working definition of "misinformation" but did not receive a response from either outfit. As a result, it remains unclear whether the Times' false or misleading reports about Russian collusion, former Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, and jihadists' missile misfire at a Gazan hospital would qualify.

Journalists Matt Taibbi and Paul D. Thacker wrote Friday on the "Racket News" Substack, "The problem with the Times piece is it defines 'false claims' and 'election misinformation' so broadly that legitimate questions or analyses and even jokes get wrapped in with far-out conspiracy tales."

Media Matters did, however, shine some light on what sort of claims it apparently feels should not be uttered on YouTube, namely: suggestions "that the election process is 'rigged' against Trump, that the legal cases against him constitute 'election interference,' that Democrats want and are enabling noncitizens to vote in order to win the election, and that Kamala Harris was 'illegally installed' as the Democratic nominee in a 'coup' against Joe Biden."

If Media Matters gets its way, then YouTube might penalize critics for highlighting the unmistakable efforts by Democrats to throw Trump in prison before the election and to remove him from the ballot; Democratic lawmakers' publicly stated plans to invalidate a lawful Trump victory; the Biden-Harris Department of Justice's lawsuits aimed at restoring the voter registration of thousands of suspected foreign nationals; or for questioning the nature of Biden's ouster as Democratic candidate and Harris' voteless candidacy.

Media Matters specifically complained that BlazeTV host Mark Levin said in May that Democrats "will do anything for votes — imprison Trump, steal elections," and that Democrats would "change the electoral process" to get more votes.

The Democratic attack dog attacked Levin further for apparently suggesting in July that Democrats "stole the election from their own primary voters and they're going to install somebody who hasn't gotten a single delegate on her own."

Media Matters also set its sights on Deace, complaining:

Right-wing radio host Steve Deace said Democrats would be "dropping ballots" and "bussing people in … to keep the spigot going until they get what they want" on Election Day. Deace continued, "All they’re trying to do is make her credible enough so they can fortify this thing at the end here."

Media Matters was apparently distressed to learn that Deace could exercise his First Amendment rights and suggest on YouTube that Democrats might want to get the polls "within their narrative margin to justify cheating."

The hit piece also noted that BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock accused California of "manipulat[ing] voting."

A YouTube spokeswoman told the Times that the company reviewed eight videos identified by the liberal paper and found that none of them violated its community guidelines. However, that's not what the Times originally reported.

'But what they meant for evil, I will choose to use for good.'

"A YouTube spokeswoman said none of the 286 videos violated its community guidelines," wrote Grant.

The Times has since issued a correction:

An earlier version of this article misstated the number of videos that YouTube reviewed when asked for comment on whether they contained misinformation. YouTubesaid it reviewed eight videos, which were identified by The New York Times and referenced in the article, not all of them, and found that those eight did not violate its community guidelines; it did not comment on whether they contained misinformation.

The YouTube spokeswoman whose response was initially misrepresented by the Times apparently also told Grant, "The ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial, is an important value — especially in the midst of election season."

Evidently not all are keen on open debate and free speech.

Kayla Gogarty, an LGBT activist who interned at the Human Rights Campaign before becoming "research director" at Media Matters, said, "YouTube is allowing these right-wing accounts and channels to undermine the 2024 results."

Media Matters was not entirely impotent regarding its censorious crusade. The Times indicated that YouTube censored three videos and placed "information labels" that link to supposedly factual information on 21 other videos.

Deace told Blaze News, "The timing of this hit piece is obviously to induce Google, which also owns YouTube and thus the two largest search engines on this planet, to censor those of us who are among the most effective in deconstructing the Left's attempts to deconstruct America right before the election. But what they meant for evil, I will choose to use for good."

Taibbi and Thacker summarized the attack campaign thusly:

A DNC-aligned group produces a "report" documenting a sciencey-sounding quantity of "misinformation" incidents, then passes the scary number to a politically willing mainstream news outlet, which trumpets the new "facts" while publicly and privately pressuring platforms to remove offending material. Welcome to the new "accountability journalism."

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Targeting citizens for their beliefs: The SHOCKING truth about government weaponization



Weaponization of the government’s power against its opponents and even its own citizens has been steadily growing worse and for a reason.

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is well aware as to why that is.

“To set the foundation for it, you have to go back to Barack Obama assuming office in 2009. So, a Kamala Harris presidency would mean 20 years. That’s an entire government career, a full generation of hiring that has gone across every single agency,” Friend tells Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show.”

“Now you have 20 years of ideologies,” he continues, adding, “and that’s how you’re getting things like McDonald's the other day, who had one franchise allow him to do one photo opportunity and then we had an E. coli breakout, CDC all over that one, and then the United States senators accusing them of price gouging and driving the stock share price down.”



Not only did the government jump at the chance to punish McDonald’s for allowing a photo op with a political opponent, but citizens across the country have fallen victim to the FACE Act.

“In the Biden administration, it’s been applied more than any other presidential administration in history,” Friend explains. “92% application towards pro-lifers, not people who were subject to fire bombings at their crisis pregnancy centers.”

“People do not know exactly the powers that are at their fingertips,” Friend continues. “They have the ability to have an assessment from the Patriot Act, which means that they can open up an investigation on any American for an articulable purpose. Don’t need probable cause of a crime.”

Deace is rightfully disturbed.

“In other words, you’re describing investigations in search of crimes. Not criminal investigations, but investigations in search of crimes. That’s what you’re describing,” Deace says.

“Find me a man, and I’ll show you the crime,” Friend agrees.

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Electoral environment bodes well for Republicans — but one nefarious F-word still lurks in the background



The Kamala Harris campaign has two pillars holding it up: “baby killing” and the narrative “[Trump] is literally Hitler.”

“They don’t have anything else to run on,” says Steve Deace.

According to Gallup’s most recent favorability polling, it would seem as if the Democrats’ two pillars are beginning to crumble.

Currently, Trump’s total favorable rating sits at a 50, while Harris’ sits at a 48. However, those numbers are reversed on the unfavorable scale. Harris’ total unfavorable rating is 50, while Trump’s is 48.

While this certainly is a positive sign for Republicans, Steve says we can’t forget about the thing that’s “lurking there in the background.”

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It’s the F-word we all dread: fraud.

Steve points to Maricopa County, Arizona, saying, "'I don't know, guys, it might take us a couple weeks [to count the votes]”’ as an example of a glaring sign of impending fraudulent activity.

“In fairness to them, given how Trump is surging in the polls right now, they don't have any clue how many votes they're going to actually need, so it may take them longer to conjure them up. I'm sorry — to count them. Count. Wrong C-word,” Steve jests.

While Steve is being humorous, "what lingers underneath the surface" is the gnawing fear that Trump will win and still not see the Oval Office — especially considering that there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that that's exactly what happened in the 2020 election.

“Nothing substantive was done about it for the last four years. Lots of people built massive engagement farms, wringing their hands about it. ... Lots of money was raised to stop the stealing from happening,” but “no Krakens were ever released,” he sighs. “The polling is still close enough perceptively that you could justify stealing it if you wanted to try.”

While “the margin of cheating is definitely lower than it was a few weeks ago ... we're not outside of it yet by any means,” warns Steve.

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‘Salt and light’ or silent and lost? Christian voters must decide



It goes without saying that Christian voters are having a, shall we say, strenuous debate right now about the challenge of rallying behind Donald Trump to avoid the fate of Kamala Harris.

But as big as that issue is, there appears to be a far bigger problem. According to a new Institute on Faith and Culture-Lifeway Research survey, American evangelical Christians are having a problem rallying behind anything at all.

While 93% of respondents said it is important to interpret the events of the world through scripture, only 35% said they are ready for discussing controversial social and political issues, and just 38% say they seek out such opportunities as citizens.

You don’t have to like everyone in your coalition, but you had better dislike nonexistence, imprisonment, or worse even more.

Uh-oh. That’s not a Donald Trump problem. That’s a “We, the People” problem and a “salt and light” problem. To be a better people and a better church, we need to get much better at acknowledging what reality is by growing in the sort of courage that follows the truth wherever it leads.

Understanding this is crucial: Politics in America has become a zero-sum game. You either win or lose. There aren’t enough conscience clauses or exceptions to protect your way of life while the spirit of the age ravages everything else. That’s not how this works. Never in American, world, or human history has there been a peaceable mass transfer of prosperity, property, and liberty — and there never will be. So we must win.

I’ve had to change my own paradigm. I entered this field believing we had simply abandoned the principled conservatism of the Reagan era. I thought that returning to those ideals could bring about another “morning in America” — instead of relying on the fake, pro-wrestling version of conservatism we’ve been seeing. While I kept noticing evidence that my paradigm might be flawed, it wasn’t arrogance that slowed me from evolving. It was concern.

Once politics turns into a zero-sum game, we are legitimately fighting for our right to exist. That shift changes the rules of engagement and requires a level of commitment and sacrifice that I fear we aren't ready for. It doesn't come with social media clicks, grifter money, or narcissism disguised as principle. Instead, it demands conviction, civil disobedience, and active citizenship — things we, by and large, seem unprepared for or uninterested in.

But here we are.

The social compact is badly broken, and the left-right political Venn diagram is irrelevant now. You may still technically have a marriage, but you're sitting in your La-Z-Boy and your wife is upstairs with her boyfriend in your bed. And depending on the day or whether the game is on, it’s tough to tell if you even care.

This is where America is right now. The government is not coming to save you from that. In fact, it’s all part of the plan, and it makes the government very happy. You are Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina to them. Please just drown quietly while your corpse is taxed to give aid to illegal immigrants and Ukraine.

It's time to learn some hard lessons. Like it or not, it's red America versus the rest of America. We're on our own in a cold civil war, and the Constitution only partially guarantees our genuine, God-ordained rights. This reality means we'll need to establish our own charity networks, our own doctors, our own health care systems, and our own information streams.

We are truly on our own.

The long march through the institutions we once relied on is complete, just as progressives intended. We lost. We must accept this to survive and move forward in this zero-sum game. The cavalry isn't coming, unless it's coming for us. God help us if we don't fight back against this reality now, so that our children can thank and honor us instead of resenting our cowardice and inaction.

You don’t have to like everyone in your coalition, but you had better dislike nonexistence, imprisonment, or worse — like your daughters being raped or your sons being coerced into transitioning — even more. Whether you vote for Trump or not, wake up. Open war is upon you, whether you acknowledge it or not, with an adversary who will show no mercy. We must build stronger communities and stand by one another. We must be prepared to fight.

Failure to act won’t appear in any survey of Christian evangelicals, in case you were wondering, because they don’t poll people in the gulag.