“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.”
― Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
(This quote truly originated with a 2018 social media post from Dave Barnhart, a pastor at Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.)
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Everyone's hats should be off to this completely honest, compassionate, and very wise Pastor. What he said more accurately reflects the teachings of Jesus than anything the MAGA Evangelicals have ever said or anything they aparently actually think or believe.
As well as reflecting the truth of all sincere spiritual paths. MAGA and their form of Evangelicalism is but a ego driven overabundance of self interest ans little else.
I'll not mention the RCC. Opps, i just did.
And now they're claiming a "child" can be frozen, and "murdered" if defrosted.
And here we thought Hitler's Nazis were extreme:
In 1941 Hitler said, “I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."
On October 10, 1936 Heinrich Himmler created the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special Office (II S), a sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.
"Good Germans" being "good Christians", but not as "good" as MAGA.
He hits point after point after point!
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