Richard Mouw, Ronald Sider, John Perkins et al. are among a group of evangelicals who claim to be “pro-life,” but want to create space for evangelicals to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Here is what Mouw and Sider co-write for the op-ed explaining their demonic logic:
Prominent evangelical leaders have just released a statement urging pro-life evangelicals to vote for Joe Biden. The signers include John Huffman, board chair emeritus of Christianity Today; Richard Foster, best-selling author of Celebration of Discipline; Jerushah Duford, Billy Graham’s granddaughter; Brenda Salter McNeil, author, speaker and long-time I VCF leader; John Perkins, founder of the Christian Community Development Association; the two authors of this piece; and a number of former presidents of evangelical universities.
The signers are diverse: a Trump voter in 2016; a lifelong Republican who refused to vote for Trump or Clinton in 2016; people who never before in their life publicly endorsed a presidential candidate until this year.
Their statement acknowledges that “as pro-life evangelicals, we disagree with Vice President Biden and the Democratic platform on the issue of abortion.” “But we believe,” the statement continues, “that a biblically shaped commitment to the sanctity of human life compels us to a consistent ethic of life that affirms the sanctity of human life from beginning to end.”[1]
They anemically attempt to argue some sort of balancing-the-scales ethical argument wherein considering political policies, that they presuppose have the same weight as abortion, ought to counter-balance the ‘single-voter’ issue. They bring up the policies of racism, Obamacare (ACA), poverty and disease, lack of health-care, and climate change as the issues that ought to offset the single issue of abortion, to the point that it legitimizes their vote for two people, Biden/Harris, who will implement policies, in regard to abortion, that will allow for abortion (and the human harvesting therefrom), up and until the baby is half way out of the birth canal. They claim, on a political talking-point narrative, constructed by mainstream news agencies that literally hate Trump, that these other issues, inclusive of the highly debatable ‘climate change’ point, are morally equal to the issue of abortion.
The problem they encounter with their antiquated (and like I said, demonic) logic is that, again, these other issues, and the policies they claim their darlings will promote, have already been tried. What have they produced? Not what they claim. What does abortion produce? Certain and tortuous death for the most sanctified among the human race. These “evangelical” thinkers stand before God for the promotion of something, as far as sheer barbarity, that God detests. Jesus believes these sorts of people ought to have a millstone hung around their necks, and then be thrown into the sea. The Apostle Paul believes that people like this ought to be excommunicated from the church, and have their sarx turned over to satan with the hopes that they might be restored to the faith and saved as by fire.
It seems like people really don’t read their Bibles! God shows absolutely no partiality to anyone. He doesn’t care about the degrees someone has; the clout a person has established among whatever community; the standing they have as a figurehead among the evangelical churches, so on and so forth. God is clear. He is a wonderful communicator. And Scripture does not allow for this slippery-slope reasoning these fools have chosen.
One more thing: The irony of this shouldn’t be lost. These guys and gals are genuinely trying to argue for their belief in the sanctity of all human life, at every stage, from the starting premise that the very inception of human life, as conceived in the womb, can be compromised upon. In other words, if they don’t start with the premise that ‘if the unborn baby’s life doesn’t matter, no life matters,’ then they have no argument to make. And yet that is exactly the argument they are attempting to make. They are attempting to start with the premise that ‘all human lives matter, therefore if not all human life isn’t cared for, then the inception of human life can’t matter.’ But this is completely assbackwards. There is no human life without its inception. Therefore, the weight of any argument, in regard to the health and well-being of human life in general, must scandalously start with its particular starting point in the womb. Yet these “evangelical” thinkers have given up the egg for the chicken. They need to be called out with the utmost seriousness, and I believe excommunicated from the church until they repent, and can thus experience the restoration they are in dire need of currently. They have lost their way; or more biblically, they have lost their first love by capitulating to the culture. May God have mercy on their soul’s.
[1] Ronald Sider and Richard Mouw, We are pro-life evangelicals for Biden, accessed 10-08-2020.
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The negation of life is that for which Christ has come into the world. There can be no other description of such an attempted equivocation demonically assigned to an “ethical” basis than that of such negation.
Excellent article, Bobby. Thank you!
I’m voted for Trump in 2016 and I will vote for him again in 2020. I guess I’m not sure how to respond to the , well Trump is a liar and a cheater , how does a Christian vote for him! Of course the comparison in my head is ridiculous but I wild love to know how to articulate my disagreement….any help?
Mussolini was against abortion. So was Hitler if the baby was Aryan. Should Christians have supported them? I am against abortion but I am not a single issue voter. Karl Barth was a life long supporter of the Democratic Socialists .In Safenwil has was called the Red Pastor by the mine owners in his congregation. Everyone knows Trump is a serial adulterer but is that the single issue for Christians.?And I would argue that he has been a lifelong racist(and a lifelong Democrat until he saw an opportunity to take over the Republican party). There are a lot of single issue voters who support the Democrats or Republicans because a single issue. If only it was that simple!
Thank you, Richard.
Becky, I don’t have lots of time to respond at the moment. I typically respond, in brief with the notion: we aren’t voting for a pastor in chief. Also, people need to educate themselves on the ISSUES at stake, if that’s their sort of response (which typically is simply a red herring and smoke screen). The issue is this: do we want to be a socialist country, or genuinely free and American. It is that drastic. If people can reduce things down to particular personal attributes they dislike about Trump, and that’s the end all with this, they are not informed or paying attention in regard to the implications of what this election means. It transcends Trump. I personally don’t like Trump, and didn’t vote for him last time (as I noted). But this is a must this time.
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Thank You Bobby!
For how many years on aberrations of LGBTQ… and other leftist causes we heard “Judge not lest you be judged [full stop].”
In the past four years the “judge not” crowd has transformed into judge, jury and executioner.
Trump was no abuser, or racist or tax cheat or environment anti-hero prior to 2016. Now Don whoever he is and millions of others accept without criticism the pop narrative on who the President is. There is no critical thinking from many of the best and the brightest. I too believe it is demonic. To choose these other issues, every one of which is contestable, against the clear irreversible death of millions of “the least of these” is inexplicable otherwise.
Duane, yes, abortion has a “webbed” logic to it that starts with those who have made a covenant with death (Is 28-9 as I recall).
Duane it is simply not true that nobody knew what a moral miscreant Trump was before 2016. Everyone knew about his draft dodging, his 3 marriages, his boasting about his sexual promiscuity , and his discrimination against blacks in housing and his calling for the execution of the innocent coloured Central Park five. I don’t know where you were living that you didn’t know all this and more.
Trump was a Democrat and a financial supporter of Hilary. Nobody ever accused him of being a Christian. But low and behold after he took over the Republican party he suddenly became some sort of Christian, chosen by God,and presumably a role model for American children.
I have never heard him repent of his sinful and selfish lifestyle. In fact one of his maxims is to never apologize ! If you bother to study his background you’ll find that the Trump family was raised on the” theology” of Norman Vincent Peale. Trump’s life is an embodiment of that self-centered ideology….demonic indeed.
No more, Don. This is your last comment I will approve at the blog. You’re a puny-minded person who is ill-informed about Trump. You’re living in the past, and not appreciating the moment. The alternative to Trump is multiple times evil, but apparently you’re clueless. I do not want your comments here any longer. This moment so far outstrips Trump, and someone who cannot see that doesn’t deserve to comment here any longer. You represent the sort of Never-Trumper myopia, and ill-informed understanding of the bigger picture that it is too great to even handle. In other words, your naïveté, and attempt to hide behind some sort of self righteousness, in light of what is actually at stake is quaint, but ultimately absurd. No more!!