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Abolitionists Rising Condemns Faithful Christians Over Trump

Within the Anti-Abortion movement, the abolitionist camp arose out of their successful and accurate criticisms of the Pro-Life Industry, in that they did not have a plan or desire to end abortion, but rather sought the issue to raise money. Their convictions garnered them much acclaim within Christian circles, as they were resolute regarding abortion in that they did not support exceptions while gaining a large online following doing pro-life evangelism, which became the content of their 254K subscriber YouTube channel.

However, the overturn of Roe v Wade underscored a void of strategy across the entire pro-life movement, and increasingly, abortion has become a losing issue via state ballots. Every single cat lady can be riled to vote for their right to have unprotected sex with a man whose child they do not want. The abolitionists have zero post-Roe wins. And their strategy, if it can be called one, is to accept nothing less than the complete abolition of abortion with no exceptions and criminalization. They oppose any incremental measures to get there.

Regarding the 2024 election, they have increasingly become hostile towards not only Donald Trump, who has weakened himself on abortion in light of the landscape, but also Trump’s voters, which would encompass the lone bulwark of white evangelicals. Functionally, Abolitionists Rising, which includes T Russell Hunter, Sam Riley, and Nathan Weisser, are calling it a sin to vote for Trump, that unless Trump adopts their precise position, it is wicked to support him, despite the fact that Trump is not campaigning on abortion policy at the federal level. Ron DeSantis would argue this exact posture if it were his name on the ballot, so either they are uniquely harsh on Trump, or they are condemning political participation with any candidate who is “compromised,” which is all of them under their framework. Others who hold this position would include Ben Zeisloft and Lizzie Marbach. This is an unnecessary division in the Church.

Amongst the litany of post, Hunter has produced long-form videos to defend the posture of Abolitionist Rising. He opens his recent forty-six minute video talking about the impact of Abolitionists Rising, claiming that they have changed many minds to refute the claim against them that they are “pietists.”

Every time I get on Twitter, the accusation that Abolitionists Rising in particular…are all bunch of pietist, navel gazing, too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good, like we’re just doing what we’re doing because we’re just trying to be pure and get gold stars from God, and you know the world can go to hell in a handbasket, all we’re concerned about is being, you know, holy for ourselves. That is the accusation and it is absolutely false. To make that accusation either means you’re ignorant of who you’re accusing, or you’re a disingenuous liar, or you are somebody who cannot argue for your point without reaching into the ad hominem bag and pulling out the “You’re being a pietist argument,” which is not an argument. It’s just a false accusation.

The early problem is that he is contrasting his YouTube content with his Twitter/X behavior, which is two different styles on two different formats to two different audiences, so naturally, each platform has its own perception. Their specialty in YouTube shorts is not the same content as their tweets. Pietist is not the most accurate descriptor, but rather arrogance. Pride is exhibited in the video where he is boasting about what Abolitionists Rising has accomplished, so how dare anyone accuse them of pietism. The desire for “gold stars” from God is an accusation of pride, not piety, which is the logical implication of their position that they are purer in upholding Scripture than all those who compromise by voting Trump. After he opens by responding to the middleweight argument from his detractors, he then goes into a strawman argument.

It’s because we reject the idea that the height of political engagement is simply voting for whoever you are registered to vote for whatever party you’re registered for, your duty and your political engagement is to go and vote for the candidate of that party. When it comes time to vote and that is the height or to campaign and send money and post pray. And support for your candidate. Or if you ever criticize your candidate to always tell your candidate, but you still have my vote thereby.

The Christians voting for Trump are not claiming that November 5th is the height of their political engagement, but merely a strategy to fight for their country. Trump being bad on abortion does not mean one should rescind their vote when he is good on other more pressing issues, like immigration and inflation. To the question of abortion vs. immigration, Hunter stated the following:

We know that God judges nations by putting those nations at war. We know that God judges nations by…using illegal aliens to come in among people, disrupt their economy, disrupt their practices. It’s just clear as day…I’m describing our culture. So whenever the abolitionist having this biblical belief about what God’s doing, we look at our culture and we go, we are under the judgment of God for practicing child sacrifice, for not criminalizing it, for turning a blind eye to it. And we are thus suffering the judgment of God because God’s face is against us, so we think what we need to do…is to repent of doing the things that bring the judgment of God. We need to cease to do evil, learn to do good. We need to turn our hearts towards the fatherless. We need to stop writing iniquitous decrees.

The immigration problem precedes Roe v. Wade as the Hart-Cellar Immigration Act was passed in 1965, undermining the demographics that made the country more liberal. Furthermore, the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1963 which functionally upended the American Revolution, so when T Russell Hunter appealed to the Constitution, the Civil Rights Act became the US Constitution, an argument many have espoused including Christopher Caldwell and Jeremy Carl. The cultural movements of the 1960’s resulted in Roe v Wade, just as they resulted in the Great Replacement, DEI, and the anti-Christ agenda seen in American politics. Abortion is just one head of the hydra.

Even though he was an incrementalist, abolitionists love to claim William Wilberforce, but the French Revolution rightfully took precedence over abolishing the Atlantic slave trade, which is why it took Wilberforce twenty years to succeed. To this day, the effects of the French Revolution are evident as thinkers like Marx arose out of it and ideas of “Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity” still manifest in modern political movements. So too is immigration a more pressing issue than abortion, for if the invasion is successful, then abolition of abortion would be mathematically impossible, the regime would increasingly persecute Christians under the guise of Civil Rights, anarcho-tyranny becomes widespread with our daughters being raped, cost of living becomes more unaffordable, etc. Under the 5th Commandment, Christians should rightfully contend for their own children more than the unborn, aborted children of the heathens, so for them to consign their children’s futures to the judgment of Kamala would be a violation of the commandment.

These abolitionists think abortion is such an egregious sin in which God’s hand is against America, but they will not resort to vigilanteism to upend this injustice. Because if one truly believed abortion was uniquely responsible for the calamitous circumstances, then what is the justification to refrain from violence or assert the right of revolution? Instead, their strategy is to take a non-incremental approach to the criminalization of abortion in which they achieve enough support to magically impose the sweeping law they want exactly the way they want it. No political movement has ever succeeded using this strategy.

But to Abolitionists Rising, it is about being more self-righteous than the Christians voting for Trump.

I want to vote for you because the other side is really bad on everything…like all these issues that we think Trump is better than Kamala Harris. Whenever Trump says, vote for me, I will not criminalize child sacrifice because he’s trying to get moderate votes. Vote for me, I will not federally ban abortion. Vote for me, I will not stop the flow of abortion pills in the United States Postal Service. You know what he’s saying? Vote for me and bring on the judgment of God. You say he doesn’t know that. Why doesn’t he? Know that because all of the Christian podcasters, his lovely Christians, ‘I love my beautiful Christians,’ all of those beautiful Christians are saying you got my vote no matter what. I’m a I’m a Trump train no matter what.

In his tweet, those beautiful Christian podcasters that he tagged included Jon Harris (tagged incorrectly), William Wolfe, Jeff Wright, Joshua Haymes, Joel Webbon, Allie Beth Stuckey, Steve Deace, Michael Clary, and Josh Daws. T Russell Hunter’s implication is that these people are all compromised on abortion, unlike him—that they are in sin. He goes out of his way to call these people “effeminate,” and “whores for clicks.” He previously called such people “false prophets.” That is pride, not pietism. He is saying, “God, I thank You that I am not like other people.”

And he is not the only one at Abolitionists Rising. Sam Riley wrote an article equivocating a vote for Trump and the Jews cozying up with Egypt in Isaiah 30. Trump is an American, not a foreign power. This is a fundamental category error in how they have been interpreting this text. Second, the people referenced by the prophet were the reprobate, not the elect, who sought a foreign power to alleviate the yoke of the Assyrians. Last, the LORD had specifically prohibited alliance with Egypt (Exodus 13:17, Deuteronomy 17:16) so this appeal to Egypt was in direct violation of the Law.

What would it take for Hunter to vote for Trump?

I’m saying that between now and November 6th, you need to do everything in your power to tell Donald Trump that he does not get your vote unless he stands for equal justice under the law. You need to do everything within your power, on your social media platforms. If you’re pulled, you need to say, “I want to vote for Donald Trump? I would never in a million years vote for Kamala Harris, but I cannot vote for him unless he is for criminalizing abortion.”

He advocates refusing to vote for Trump unless he takes an extreme position on abortion that, however correct it might be, is not feasible in the current landscape. Abortion is not going to get criminalized anytime soon, and even still, they would only support the death penalty, which historically has rarely been imposed as a judicial punishment even when abortion was criminalized.

Furthermore, King Josiah reigned for eighteen years before he purged idolatry and instituted reforms. The idea that Trump can achieve this in four years is asinine and delusional. DeSantis cannot even do that in Florida after five years, nor Kemp in Georgia, nor Stitt in Oklahoma, nor Reynolds in Iowa. By imposing an irrational and unrealistic standard, they are neutering their voice in politics and advocating for other Christians to do the same. In this, he might rightfully be called pietistic or anabaptist in his approach.

Joshua Haymes, of Reformation Red Pill, responded to Hunter’s video by stating, “On principle you have made your closest allies your arch enemies, and the rhetoric you use when dealing with fellow brothers in Christ is in fact slanderous and sinful.”

In the end, does Abolitionists Rising want to end abortion, or do they just want to feel self-righteous about the issue? The totality of their behavior and approach to politics indicates the latter.

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One Response

  1. I’m not against vigilantism. Against the invaders, the child murderers, the muslims, or the traitors. Sounds like a just war to me. None of them should be here.

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