Should you welcome immigrants?

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By Tim Mossholder

Should you welcome immigrants?
Wednesday – November 19, 2025

The short answer is yes, but the long answer is maybe. I realize that humanity is currently moving through a major historical junction that will see profound demographic shifts due to such things as globalization and immigration. But I hold that any righteous man should and has a duty to open his home to a stranger in need. Yes, it would be quite immoral to turn immigrants away, especially from the perspective of God. Would God turn away his own son? No, he would not. Yes, I do realize that there are many materialist arguments in favor and against immigration, but here I am trying to provide a spiritual and metaphysical argument in favor of welcoming that stranger in need. After all and perhaps especially in the material domain, aren't we all strangers in need? What is this world but a hell created by man and his need to break and destroy? Yes, man can destroy and man can break and indeed, most of the material domain is an ugly place. But if you see a man in need, would you not help that man? I think most righteous men would help another man in need, at least if they consider themselves to be righteous. Yes, there are demographic concerns connected to immigration, but all of these concerns about skin color and hair texture are material, they do not matter at the end of the day. I also hold the view that the nation-state was a mistake for the beginning, and indeed you can and I do make the argument that if there's anything that is threatening the certain and sometimes delicate demographic balance of the planet it was the invention of mass mobilized politics, something that I have covered in the past. I believe that the message of Jesus and many other prophets are everlasting, a glimpse into the world of the ancients, but of course I do also recognize that yes modern confusions have made the message of Jesus quite misunderstood. Why then should you accept an immigrant? Again, why is this man, this stranger in need, an immigrant? He is an immigrant because he has assumed in your mind the political object of the immigrant, and you may read more about that topic in my "Collectivism & Individualism series". But yes, immigrants are scary because they bring with them cultural insight that you do not possess and this unknown world is scary as it should be. Indeed, any man in his right mind would and should be skeptical of the strange, but to be conservative and skeptical is not the same thing as being afraid and scared. The stranger is really no more scary than the newcomer, yet no-one is expected to be afraid of the next generation, apart from the perennial and occasional moral panic. In the modern world, it seems quite impossible to protect yourself from war and violence and this should prompt any far-seeing man to ask himself this: why should some corner, if not most, of the world be sealed off to the masses facing war, starvation, and imminent death? To me this seems quite evil, but people will defend it and that's because the revolutionary elite is manipulating them and using the adverse material circumstances of others to hold you in place. Yes, if you don't listen to your material masters you will become a refugee yourself. Again, I understand that you may be concerned about culture and tradition, but why should your culture and tradition be so weak that it cannot survive being shared by others? The essence of the righteous man is his ability to refuse to fall for the populist hysteria, and indeed if you seek complete sanctuary in the world, you must depart the material and you must turn inward, a topic that I have also covered in the past. And yes, there may be some strangers that you should turn away, but those are exceptional. See, you are that stranger: you are a stranger in a weird world that you aren't really a part of, because you aren't supposed to be a part of this world. This world is corrupt and in terminal decay, but you can do better and you have a duty to do better and every time you do better you also help a stranger, and that stranger always begins with yourself. The mistake most modern men make is to assume that they are a part of this world, when they are not.

    So again, yes you should accept and welcome the stranger, at least if you intend to live on in the world. You can always retire from the world, but that's a rather hard thing for most people to do, but you can read more about that here. There are also of course reasons that go beyond cultural awareness as to why people oppose immigrants and strangers but again those are always seemingly material in nature. I guess I object to this concept of living in the material domain and attempting to seal oneself off from the rest of the world. As far as I am concerned this is quite simply not possible and if you attempt you will fail.

Reginald Drax – November 19, 2025.