As the benevolent, generous and trusting nature of Maine citizens is leveraged by advocates of mass immigration of skilled and unskilled labor to provide cheap labor for owners of capital, large and small, those advocates and their spokesmen often reference the Christian scriptures.
Setting aside doubts of the sincerity of the advocates’ devotion to the teachings of Christ, Edward Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) provides wise counsel to inform policy: “A doctrine [Christianity] so extraordinary and sublime must inevitably command the veneration of the people; but is ill calculated to obtain the suffrage of those worldly philosophers, who, in the conduct of this transitory life, consult only the feelings of nature and the interest of society”.
Or in simpler words: “Do not immanentize the eschaton”.