The pro-life movement misuses the Bible to “consolidate white political power,” a Vanderbilt University assistant professor said during a symposium hosted by the University of California Los Angeles on Monday.
Professor Sophie Bjork-James also criticized pro-lifers for denying climate change and focusing solely on the issue of abortion.
The event, titled “Misusing the Bible: White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism in America,” featured two other assistant professors.
The trio discussed “how Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism use and misuse biblical and historical material to bolster their narratives,” according to the event description [1].
Some pro-lifers point to the Bible to support their argument, “Yet many biblical scholars say abortion is actually not even really referenced in the Bible, and many argue that it is not a central ethical theme,” Bjork-James said.
She quoted Dallas Theological Seminary Professor Bruce Waltke, who wrote, “God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed.”
Further, Bjork-James referenced historian Jennifer Holland, who “describes the anti-abortion movement as the civil rights movement for white people.”
For evangelicals, the issue of abortion is “like slavery or the Holocaust … there’s no gray area involved,” Bjork-James said.
[TBC: Many “biblical scholars” may read the Bible, but apparently don’t read it for what it says. As Psalm:139:15-16 [15] My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
[16] Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
See All... [3] tells us, “My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. ”As Dave Hunt noted, “I have stated in numerous articles and books that we must follow God and not man. We do not condemn any rescue of babies about to be aborted. In fact, we have an obligation to do all we can to rescue anyone from any harm by which they are being threatened.”]
