N.T Wright Trashes American Christians For Their Views on Abortion and Gun Rights: “I do not see an educated electorate”
Adapted from two X posts from @WokePreacherTV
N.T Wright says Americans’ defense of gun rights is inconsistent with their defense of the unborn, because they are too polarized by social media, they accept “over-simplified” arguments to fall in line with a particular leader, they can’t handle “nuance,” and ultimately, they just aren’t an “educated electorate.”
But does this sound like a nuanced, educated take on gun laws?
“When I go to America, it always astonishes me that the same people are vitriolically opposed to abortion and vitriolically in favor of everybody carrying guns and being prepared to shoot people at any time.
On the one hand, you’d have thought if they’re so concerned about preserving human life, even in embryo and in vitro, etc., then why are they not concerned about preserving human life when it comes to, say, a school shooting by somebody who’s been able to walk into a store, even though mentally disturbed, and buy a weapon-grade automatic rifle? I mean, for somebody from the other side of the Atlantic, and I suspect for you [Carey Nieuwhof] in Canada, this is just nonsense.”
Furthermore. N.T. Wright thinks a substantial element of the pro-life movement is just “people nervous about sex” who get manipulated by “powerful men telling women what they could and couldn’t do.”
He says our discourse on abortion has failed to frame the issue as the idol of “male violence” vs. the idol of “a fulfilled erotic existence,” personified in the pagan gods Ares and Aphrodite (though he mixes up Ares for his Roman equivalent, Mars).
Yes, you heard that right: the people trying to stop abortion are unknowingly serving the god of war.
“It seems to me that abortion became an issue, not least because people were aware, certainly in my country and I think in America, that abortion was being used as an easy and inverted-commas [UKish for “quote-unquote”] form of contraception. And that that, in consequence, was licensing sexual immorality, or what used to be thought of as sexual immorality. Promiscuity, anyway.
So that the desire to have free abortion went with the desire to have free sex. And so people who were nervous about sex for whatever reason, and there’d be many reasons why people’d be nervous about sex, would say, ‘Oh, abortion is wrong, da da da da da da,’ and then produce all the standard arguments about, ‘Well, here is a picture of a fetus in the womb, etc., etc.’
Whereas then, conversely, that was turned into a power play by powerful people, often powerful men, basically telling women what they could and couldn’t do.
Which, then, you get two of the ideologies of our time: Aphrodite, the goddess of erotic love, Mars, the god of violence and war, who are kind of squabbling with each other.
Is this about male violence? Is it about the right to have a fulfilled erotic existence? Etc. And we haven’t named those issues. And in consequence, I think we’re often shadow boxing.”
This entire post is basically just @wokepreacherTV’s two X threads, written out in full.
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I guess he doesn’t get the “nuance” that abortion is murdering human beings and that armed citizenry is a deterrent to (or at least a protective measure against) criminals and tyrannical governments.
His addled spew on this topic helps clarify his even more deeply addled Biblical opinions. This is a reprobate mind under the judgment of God.
He doesn’t understand the Gospel. He is not conversant with even the rudiments of logical thought. He lacks even a fundamental grasp of Scripture.
He is living evidence of the inexplicable fact that people will laud the supposed intellect of even the most obvious dolt as long as a British accent accompanies its babblings.
Nearly every culture on the planet recognizes the difference between innocence and guilt.
I’m sure that distinction is in one of the books in Mr Wright’s library there. Perhaps he should read them.
Unborn humans are innocent, guilty of nothing. I won’t belabor the definitions here.
Criminal activity such as unprovoked life-threatening violence of action against another human being is cause for defense of life. This concept is as old as humanity. The person defending life has no guilt in the taking of the life of the perpetrator.
Of what crime is an unborn child to be found guilty to earn a death sentence?
It’s sad that a man, ostensibly erudite, can be so ignorant of simple truths that have maintained civilization for untold millennia. England truly lost its “best and brightest” in the early half of the 20th century defending itself against invaders.
Guns Save Lives.
N.T. Wright is N.T. Wrong…… and another thing can we please drop the N.T. ? His first name is Nick, so just call him Nicky Wright or in this case Nicky Wrong…,.,
The logical equivalent would be to blame and outlaw the tools used to perform abortions. Forceps, vacuums, scalpels, etc. But the reprobate mind cannot comprehend. By stepping into the political fray, Mr. Wright is essentially falsely accusing Jesus of the same. When He told the disciples to arm themselves with swords, was He advocating for murder? Mr. Wright then doubles-down falsely accusing the saints, according to some worldly psycho-babble, as if the opposition to murder is indicative of mental problems. Such backwards “reasoning” is the fruit of a reprobate mind, which has never come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Tim. 3:7 (larger context 2 Tim. 3:1-9)
“He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous
are both alike an abomination to the LORD.” – Prov. 17:15
N.T. Wright, the theistic evolutionist who literally sings the praises of Nazi ghoul Francis Collins?