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 immigrants, 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

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The fact you assume this should be offensive to "anyone of faith" is in itself quite offensive.

    The pastor being quoted is not referring to any named biblical figures with his criticism, let alone misrepresenting them. Unless you think the pastor is misrepresenting prisoners, immigrants, the sick, the poor, widows, and orphans; in which case you need to practice your reading comprehension skills. He is talking about contemporary christians and their attitudes towards their fellow man, and if you are this offended by that I think it tells more about you.