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I pointed this out years ago in an essay I wrote for the New Oxford Review<\/em> called \u201cTruth Cancer and the Redemption of Rebellion<\/a>\u201c.\u00a0 And now the Christianist heresy, a theopolitical cult that dresses the Trumpian adoration of money and power in Christian trappings, imagery, and jargon, illustrates my point yet again by sacrificing its \u201cprolife\u201d rhetoric (and the unborn it claims to care about) on the altar of one of the most important gods in its pantheon, the gun:<\/p>\n

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This is the ultimate fruit of the Christianist habit of using the unborn as human shields for its devotion to the Right Wing Cult of Death.\u00a0 The meme is, of course, attempting to be clever with this latest extremely unclever spasm of Whataboutism by which the Cult always defends itself.\u00a0 It\u2019s trying to say Libruls are dumb for wanting to outlaw guns (and by \u201coutlaw\u201d the Cult means \u201cchange in any way, however slight, our current regime that slaughter 35,000 people a year\u201d).<\/p>\n

What it is, in fact, doing is declaring that abortion should remain legal, that the\u00a0entire<\/em>\u00a0prolife project for the past 40 years has been a colossal waste of time, and that the whole goal of getting a prolife court that will overturn Roe<\/em> and free states to outlaw abortion is absolutely pointless.<\/p>\n

Now, I agree that what must be addressed is demand as well as supply when treating the question of violence to both the born and the unborn.\u00a0 That is why I call for a consistent ethic of life and for an incarnational view of the human person that does not gnostically lie that the heart matters but not the physical world (including guns and abortion technology).\u00a0 But it is idiotic to claim that gun and abortion restrictions will do nothing to reduce gun and abortion violence.\u00a0 And the advocates of both know it, which is why they fight tooth and nail against such restrictions.<\/p>\n

But we have reached a new level in Christianist \u201cprolife\u201d hypocrisy when these liars, simply to save their insane idolatry of the gun, declare that the fight against abortion in our legal system is a total waste of time. How long can any *real* prolife Christian go on supporting this pack of lying narcissists, I wonder?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"