Why Christian Men Talking About Abortion Are Hypocrites

Christian men claim to believe in the sovereignty of God, yet if they really believed in God's sovereignty, they would recognize they have no place in debates about abortion.

Men love to talk about “the will of God” but also seem to feel like God has somehow designated them as being His/ Her/ It/ Their mouthpiece. In truth, at the moment of Christ’s death, it was recorded that the veil in the Temple that separated man from the Holy of Holies was torn in two. This was interpreted by both Biblical authors and Biblical scholars to mean that we no longer needed a “priest” to intercede for us. We now had the ability to communicate directly with God and seek God’s will for our own lives. Which also gave us the responsibility for doing so.

In spite of that, however, men have continued to appoint themselves as God’s mouthpiece. They have spent the last 2,000 years teaching that they and they alone are qualified to perceive and communicate to others what the will of God is, which directly contradicts what the Bible says. While we are all called to “spread the gospel” that is a very different thing from telling people what “God’s will” is or how to live their lives.

Even more importantly, men continue to confuse their role with God’s. When astronomers first proposed that the earth actually rotated around the sun, they met the harshest resistance from religious leaders. Men who could not fathom the concept that perhaps they were not in fact the center of the universe. Although science has long since proven that the earth does in fact revolve around the sun, that hasn’t necessarily made a big difference in the way religious men act, think, feel and believe.

Christian men claim to believe in both the Bible and in the sovereignty of God. Yet if men truly believed in the sovereignty of God, they would stop fighting so hard against the things that God has clearly ordained. While there are many things that are not the way God ordained because man has consistently interfered with them, there are many things that are clearly the way God ordained them because man cannot change them.

One example of this is that women bear children, men do not. If men believe in the Bible, then they believe that God created man. In doing so, God had every ability to give men the ability to bear children, yet in Their sovereign wisdom, They did not. If Christian men truly believe in the sovereignty of God, then they have to believe that God knew what They were doing. If God did not give men the ability to bear children, it is for a reason.

There are many different ways in which God could have ensured the propagation of the species. Since God also created all of the animals and animals procreate in any number of different ways, God could have had women simply lay eggs, which men could then tend to, but They did not.

What is even more interesting, however, is that when God came to earth in human form, God bypassed man altogether. Jesus did not have a father, he only had a mother. While many men like to think that they are God’s gift to women, Jesus was literally God’s gift to women. Again and again, throughout the course the New Testament, Jesus encounters women that men had decided were wicked and unforgivable sinners, yet Jesus refuses to condemn a single one of them. You know who Jesus does have a lot to say about? Hypocrites.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. (Matt 23:14)

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. (Matt 23:23)

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. (Matt 23:25)

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:45-51

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. (Rom 12:9)

God very clearly gave women a weighty responsibility, but God also very clearly gave men a responsibility as well.

Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

So Christian men seem to feel it is a woman’s duty to bear children. Okay, so what is a man’s role then? Well, Christian men seem to believe their role is supposed to be that of protector and provider. So how well are men doing that? Here are some statistics.

• Pregnant women in the US are twice as likely to die by homicide than pregnancy-related causes.

• Homicide was found to be the leading cause of death among women who were pregnant, accounting for 20% of deaths among that group, compared with 6% of deaths among nonpregnant women of reproductive age.

• 1 in 4 women have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.

• $33.7 billion dollars in child support was owed during the year 2015

• The average amount of child support due was $5,760 per year, which is less than $500 per month.

• Only 60% of that money—an average of $3,447 per year—was actually received

• On average, custodial single parents who receive child support get about $287 per month to help with food, shelter, clothing, medical costs, education, and incidentals.

• Today, 1 in 6 children in America struggles with hunger and 17% of all children are living in food-insecure households that lack access to nutrition sometime during the year.

• In January 2020, there were 580,466 people experiencing homelessness in America, 30% of which were people living in families with children.

Meanwhile, in the last two decades, America has spent more than $7 Billion in public funds to build football stadiums for the NFL. That doesn't even account for all of the basketball arenas, soccer stadiums, public high school and college football stadiums or any of the other sports venues. In fact, in 2021, there were a total of 30 new stadiums currently being built for soccer & college football. Here is a breakdown of just some of the public funds spent on NFL stadiums in the last two decades.

• Denver: Empower Field (2001) $300 million (taxpayer)

• Pittsburgh: Heinz Field (2001) $281 million (100% taxpayer)

• Seattle: Lumen Field (2002) $300 million (state)

• Arizona: State Farm Stadium (2006) $312 million (taxpayer)

• Minnesota: U.S. Bank stadium (2016) $500 million (taxpayer)

• Atlanta: Mercedes Benz stadium (2017) $1.6 billion (100% public)

• Las Vegas: Allegiant Stadium (2020) $750 million (taxpayer)

The average stadium generates $145 million per year, none of which goes back into the community. Conversely, Spending $700 million in areas like education or housing could have long-term positive consequences with the potential for long-term increases in the standard of living and economic growth.

It is no secret that it is largely Republicans and/or Conservative Christians that just keep pushing for almost all abortion bans, yet they continue to not only block every form of public aid, they also block every bill aimed at curtailing spending on sports stadiums.

In his 2016 budget, President Barack Obama proposed getting rid of tax-free bonds to help finance stadiums, a practice that costs the U.S. Treasury $146 million a year, according to a 2012 Bloomberg analysis. Bloomberg calculated that the $17 billion in tax-exempt debt used to build stadiums since 1986 would cost taxpayers $4 billion. The idea, like most of Obama’s budget, failed to gain traction in the Republican-dominated Congress.

Meanwhile, in 2018, churches received a mind-blowing $124.52 Billion in donations, almost half of which they spend on personnel and a quarter of which they spend on facilities. While one of the many purposes of tithes and offerings was certainly to support missionaries in their mission journeys, it is highly unlikely that the same person that said “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head” (Matt 8:20) intended for half of people’s tithes and offerings to be used to pay pastors and a quarter of it to be used on buildings.

In fact, nowhere in the New Testament does Jesus (or any of his disciples) ever direct anyone to build a building. It is almost a certainty that the biggest reason men don’t want women speaking in churches is because they know full well women will call them out on their bullshit.

So, not only are men not taking care of their own children, but male pastors are actually taking the funds that are supposed to be collected and redistributed the poor (namely “widows and orphans”) to improve their own wealth. Then they preach that women need to provide more children for them to not take care of? So men believe it is a woman’s job is to:

• Bear the children

• Take care of the children (be a full-time mom)

• And also pay for the children! (Have a full-time job, at which she makes 87 cents for every dollar a man makes.)

If God wanted men to make reproductive decision, he would have given them reproductive system. But He did not. What He did do was give them a responsibility to care for the poor, the sick and the needy, which they clearly are not doing. So, perhaps they should butt out of the uterus’ of women and focus their attention on doing what God actually called them to do. Not just to provide for their own wife and children (which they are already not doing) but for all women and children.

If they actually did that, it is almost a certainty that women would stop having abortions. There would be no need.