Kristin Du Mez Seeks Loophole To Support Abortion: ‘When does the soul enter the body?’
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne, a Calvin University faculty member, and a rising star in progressive circles because of her fight against the patriarchy, being gay-affirming, and seemingly unbothered by taking a billy club to parts of the bible she doesn’t like. We last wrote about her after she announced she was joining a host of ne’er-do-wells, pagans, and antichrist heretics for the Freedom Rising Conference.
In an episode of the Convocation Unscripted, DuMez explains that Christians have an “impoverished theological discourse” on “ensoulment” (when the soul enters the body) and suggests they need to have more of a 1960’s mindset.
I love to go back to this 1968 special edition of Christianity Today, a whole magazine, a whole issue on contraception and abortion. Read it. It is fascinating. And one of the key pieces there is a theological analysis of ensoulment.
When does the soul enter the body? And how do we understand that? And how do we reconcile this theological question or apply this theological question to what we now know in terms of modern science?
Notably, she previously described the article that she is seemingly so fond of this way:
“And so in 1968, Christianity Today had a special issue on abortion, and the gist of it was: it’s really complicated. And it’s not a good thing, but it is sometimes a necessary thing in the case of rape, in the case of incest, in the case of, uh, for the health of the mother, even.”
She continues:
I mean, what a fascinating theological question, and a question that I have not heard asked for at least a generation now, if not more. Right. So the theology around this question has almost not been allowed. And I think that we have an impoverished theological discourse now around this absolutely critical question.
And so I would love to be able to go and draw some of those resources from 50, 60 years ago and put them on the table again. And how do we have these conversations around life, and around how we approach this in a pluralist society, and how Christians bring their religious views to the table on an issue where people are bringing very different religious and moral understandings of these issues, and what has been lost, perhaps, in pursuing this hardcore political gain and abandoning other modes of discourse and of persuasion.
Two years ago, Du Mez characterized Donald Trump appointing Supreme Court justices who would go to overturn Roe as a “ruthless display of power” and lamented how she misses the good old days when evangelicals were far less “radicalized” than they are now, viewing abortion as the “lesser of two evils” rather than the purest manifestation of demonic activity on earth.
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The left (including nice religious folks like this prof) is absolutely obsessed with baby-murder. It is a sign of our times, that even Christians are now so desperate to keep this slaughter going that they would go to such absurd lengths to justify something that clearly immoral. Her statement is silly, yet horrifying. I honestly don’t know whether to laugh……….or CRY.
This is not a “fascinating theological question.” The Bible clearly states “I knew you before you were born.” Only the leftists can put controversy where things are quite clear, like “shall not be infringed.” Of course they are the ones who had a president who had sexual relations in the Oval Office and stated it’s debatable as to what the word “is” is.
A living human being exists at the moment of conception. Science. Almost every religion on the planet agrees that all humans have a soul. Shut it.