I consider myself a Conservative to this day. But that doesn't mean I agreed with them in everything.
We were right to view abortion as murder. As much as I value bodily autonomy, a woman’s right to make choices—including stupid ones that hurt her—ends where someone else’s life begins.
Let’s face it. We Christians go further than secular Conservatives. We oppose fornication—or all sex outside of wedlock—and everyday use of mind-altering drugs. Once I realized this was all the pseudo-science of psychiatry had to offer, I determined to ween myself off. What sustained me was my Christian belief that the Holy Spirit wanted His temple clean.
I’m guilty of gluttony. Just like many of my fellow Conservatives.
We have been gluttons, spendthrifts, prescription drug addicts, sluggards and mindless consumers of pop culture. Funny how aside from mentions of how lazy people on welfare are, preachers have seldom mentioned these sins from the pulpit.
We have been sinned against and taken advantage of. But we were complicit in our own downfall.
Funny how the only people I heard making a fuss about the sweat shops in poor nations and the human rights abuses by corporations like Walmart were on the Left. Supposedly we Christians oppose that kind of exploitation. But we never talked about it. We never investigated. We never changed our patterns of consumption.
It’s not just the unborn Proverbs 31:8-9 was talking about. The Bible is full of warnings against those who swindle the poor. Passages like Psalm 1 warn against keeping company with the ungodly.
By routinely paying to enrich swindlers and slavers, by consuming the mental excrement of perverts, liars and God haters in theaters, concerts, and TV studios we have paid for our own downfall.
It was our money. No one forced us to buy products from corporate CEOs bent on doing harm to our fellow man. No one forced us to watch their screens.