AI Is A Gateway To The Welfare State
October 6, 2026 |
Keith Giles
It All Began with a Big Lie
This lie—pounded into the heads of Christians for decades—taught that God cared more about embryos than about the poor, the sick, or the suffering… or about women.
But the grooming of Christians around the abortion issue was never really about life.
It was about power.
“The weaponization of abortion turned love into leverage and faith into faction.”
It trained Christians to see compassion as weakness and control as righteousness.
Decades later, that moral conditioning gave us Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, book bans, and a movement that cheers cruelty as virtue.
Across the late 20th century, political organizers discovered that abortion could unify voters who had little else in common. The moral urgency of “saving babies” became a powerful tool to mobilize churches, build media networks, and create a sense of siege.
Many sincere believers were drawn in—believing they were defending faith—while a small group of strategists turned moral passion into a durable political machine.
In the 1970s, most Protestant denominations did not treat abortion as central doctrine.
Even after Roe v. Wade (1973), the Southern Baptist Convention called it “a Catholic issue.” Evangelist Billy Graham called it “a law of compassion.”
Then came the pivot.
ANTI-ABORTION FERVOR IS NOT BIBLICAL. Read more about the issues and other deconstructed religious indoctrination here
at UnconventionalPastorPaul’s Deconstruction FAQs page.
Paul Weyrich, a racist, anti-democracy strategist, had long dreamed of consolidating Christian power—but he knew democracy itself stood in the way. He began building a parallel system: Christian schools, homeschooling movements, TV networks, and publishing houses. What he lacked was a unifying moral issue.
Jerry Falwell Sr., pastor of a segregated Christian school, was enraged when President Jimmy Carter’s administration forced private schools to integrate. Weyrich and Falwell found each other—and found their issue.
Segregation was no longer a winning public cause.
But abortion was.
By 1980, ‘abortion’ had replaced segregation as the rallying cry of the newly branded Moral Majority.
They wrote the Sunday-school lessons. They launched radio shows. They created the “single-issue voter.” They distributed propaganda curricula to spread misinformation—and it worked.
In 1976, fewer than half of white evangelicals voted.
By 2020, 81% voted for Donald Trump.
Somewhere in hell, Paul Weyrich must be gloating: his plan worked beyond his wildest dreams.
Weyrich’s goal was never spiritual revival or Christian renewal.
It was a political strategy for a Christian-nationalist takeover.
When faith becomes tied to political victory, compassion starts to feel like compromise.
What began as a movement to “defend life” slowly trained millions to see control as virtue and empathy as weakness.
It taught them that the real Jesus—the one found in the Gospels—was “too woke.”
In 2019, South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned a 60-year abortion ban after data showed high abortion rates—and greater danger for poor women.
Wealthier women accessed safe, illegal procedures.
Poorer women risked infection, infertility, and death.
Meanwhile, in Israel, abortion is legal and publicly funded.
The U.S. sends Israel $3 billion a year in aid.
So if abortion invites God’s wrath, why is America funding it abroad?
“Criminalizing abortion doesn’t stop it.
It only shifts the danger toward those with the fewest resources.”
The curse isn’t divine judgment—it’s our own inequity.
Christians claim to “follow the Bible,” yet there are zero verses requiring abortion bans—and thousands commanding care for the poor, oppressed, foreigner, and widow. In the Bible, texts claimed to prove that life begins at conception (Jeremiah 1, Psalm 139, Luke 1) are poetic or context-specific, not legal codes.
Meanwhile, many who demand “small government” cheer loudly when that same government inserts itself into bedrooms, bathrooms, and doctor’s offices.
That’s not holiness.
That’s hypocrisy dressed as righteousness.
Jesus never addressed abortion once—but spoke constantly about caring for the poor, the sick, and the marginalized.
If Scripture offers no command to criminalize abortion—but repeatedly commands compassion—the faithful question isn’t “How do we punish?”
It’s “How do we care?”
“If you insult your brother or sister… you are the one in danger of hellfire.” — Matthew 5:21–22
If saving babies were truly the goal, why oppose:
Every major study shows abortion rates drop under Democratic policies that expand social support.
Maybe this was never about life.
Maybe it was about control—and votes.
The Sacred Rebellion that is listening, thinking, learning and growing. Read more on the spiritual implications of this issue on the UnconventionalPastorPaul Substack.
Maybe many anti-abortion Christians are sincere.
So was Saul of Tarsus—until the scales fell from his eyes.
You can be sincere in study and still sincerely wrong in practice.
“Jesus never spoke about abortion.
But he did speak volumes about hypocrisy, control, and condemnation masquerading as holiness.”
The early church transformed the Roman Empire not through coercion but through compassion—rescuing abandoned infants, feeding the hungry, nursing plague victims.
They confronted empire by living differently, not by legislating morality.
We could do the same.
Instead of policing women’s bodies, we could fight the conditions that make unwanted pregnancy so devastating: poverty, isolation, lack of healthcare.
That is a pro-life ethic rooted in love, not fear.
“What if we fought poverty, not pregnant people?
What if we honored complexity instead of enforcing shame?”
That would be pro-life.
That would be Christlike.
That would be a rebellion worth calling sacred.
This conversation belongs to all of us who were taught that obedience was holiness and compassion was compromise.
Many of us were formed inside systems that confused control with faithfulness.
But every system that weaponizes love eventually turns on the people it claims to protect.
Maybe it’s time to stop fighting for empire—and start healing from it.
Sacred Rebellion is where that healing begins:
where we unlearn the scripts that made us fear each other and remember what Jesus actually asked of us—
to love without condition, and to build a world where no one’s body, choice, or humanity becomes a political tool.
Because faith was never meant to serve empire.
It was meant to set people free.
Stories that free. Truth that challenges. Rebellion that restores.
