On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer declared that God created the United States for the purpose of spreading the Gospel of Christ throughout the world and therefore illegal immigration must be stopped because it is causing division within the nation and sucking up valuable resources that could otherwise be used for spreading the Gospel.

“Our purpose as a nation,” he said, “is to advance and expand the Kingdom of God. That is the calling that is on the United States … And we have, up to this point in history, we have abundantly fulfilled that mission. The United States has invested more financial resources and sent more personnel carrying the message of the Gospel to more darkened corners of the world than any other place on the planet. And that is our calling and that is what illegal immigration is threatening.”

“One of the things we need in order to carry out the Great Commission is a sense of national unity,” Fischer continued. “We are one people with a common purpose, that has to do with the things of God, with expanding the reach of God, expanding the impact that God’s kingdom and the Gospel has on the world. Well, you can’t do that if you’re fractured, if you’re divided over race, if you’re divided because you have people living illegally who don’t even belong here, have no intention of assimilating, no intention of entering into that larger purpose for your nation. They’re not going to be an asset to that; they’re going to be a detraction to that. They’re going to diminish the capacity of the country to do that.”