I fully agree we shouldn't cherry pick passages to support our bias.  But then, who of us thinks he's biased?

Anyway, if the "Woes to the Unrepentant Cities" verses "shouldn't be taken literally" because Mathew is given to put words in Jesus's mouth, then why should Matt 25;35 be taken as a literal endorsement of free and open immigration?

And if we can't discern the voice of Jesus from those who wrote about him, then strictly speaking, we are always guessing what is and what is not authentic "Christian social teaching."