{"id":1531960,"date":"2022-06-29T08:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531960"},"modified":"2022-06-29T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:04:36","slug":"russell-moore-wont-celebrate-dobbs-because-hed-have-to-admit-pro-trump-christians-are-good-at-loving-their-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russell-moore-wont-celebrate-dobbs-because-hed-have-to-admit-pro-trump-christians-are-good-at-loving-their-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Moore Won\u2019t Celebrate Dobbs Because He\u2019d Have To Admit Pro-Trump Christians Are Good At Loving Their Neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussell-moore-wont-celebrate-dobbs-because-hed-have-to-admit-pro-trump-christians-are-good-at-loving-their-neighbors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531960&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-28-at-6.54.36-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Many Christian figureheads of the Never Trump variety have either gone mute or twisted themselves in ideological knots since the Supreme Court struck down <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> after nearly half a century, but none of the silence is as deafening as that coming from Russell Moore, the former president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s odd that one of the most prominent names in evangelicalism and the country\u2019s largest Protestant circles hasn\u2019t said a peep about the most consequential legal decision of our time, especially since Christianity was such a large part of the movement causing the reversal of <em>Roe<\/em> and will no doubt play an outsized role in its aftermath. <\/p>\n<p>A little online searching shows one \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/podcasts\/russell-moore-show\/bonus-episode-stephen-prothero-roe-wade-abortion-culture.html\">bonus episode<\/a>\u201d from \u201cThe Russell Moore Show\u201d on Christianity Today (where Moore holds the title of public theologian) that came out the day of the <em>Dobbs<\/em> ruling, advertising \u201cA Conversation with Stephen Prothero on Culture Wars Now That \u2018Roe\u2019 Is Gone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But the episode didn\u2019t occur after Roe was \u201cgone\u201d; it was a pre-tape from after the <em>Dobbs<\/em> draft opinion leak speculating about what might come next, meaning Moore has offered no post-<em>Roe<\/em> analysis. And his guest, a religion professor at Boston University, has spent the days since the <em>Roe<\/em> reversal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sprothero\/status\/1541483754123890692?s=20&#038;t=-cPg0E6n1fZe3Z2Ivqo7yw\">telling<\/a> Christians to \u201cf-ck off\u201d on Twitter and <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/sprothero\">retweeting<\/a> political graphics depicting conservative Supreme Court justices as Tiananmen Square tanks about to mow down a pregnant woman. Christianity Today didn\u2019t respond to multiple requests for comment about why the pre-taped podcast was dishonestly framed as post-<em>Dobbs<\/em> commentary.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think every person everywhere is responsible for commenting on cultural, political, and spiritual events. In fact, that performative impulse is one of the reasons once-apolitical cultural havens such as professional sports have been so ruined by virtue-signaling and complicated sociopolitical realities have been dumbed down to a pointless black square on Instagram. But given that Moore is the chairman of public theology at Christianity Today, why has he not said anything <em>publicly<\/em> about this issue of deep <em>theological<\/em> importance?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as though Moore hasn\u2019t made his opinions on abortion and <em>Roe<\/em> clear in the past. He\u2019s many times written about the barbaric practice, even editing a book about \u201cThe Gospel &#038; Abortion,\u201d and has often alluded to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmoore\/status\/614433792904839168?s=20&#038;t=cErlScEll5nX-rNryUvBgg\">Roe\u2019s egregiousness<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmoore\/status\/349892352795611136?s=20&#038;t=cErlScEll5nX-rNryUvBgg\">Twitter<\/a>. So why refuse to comment on the most consequential pro-life victory in nearly 50 years? <\/p>\n<p>Christianity Today and an assistant of Moore didn\u2019t respond to multiple inquiries about why Moore hasn\u2019t said anything.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Moore has been silent on <em>Roe<\/em> because he\u2019s been too busy making a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/may-web-only\/southern-baptist-abuse-apocalypse-russell-moore.html\">showy exit<\/a> from the Southern Baptist Church after a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6108172d83d55d3c9db4dd67\/t\/6298d31ff654dd1a9dae86bf\/1654182692359\/Guidepost+Solutions+Independent+Investigation+Report___.pdf\">report<\/a> about sexual abuse among some of its leaders. It was ultimately faithful Southern Baptists who uncovered the evil. Moore, upstanding as he was, remained a leader within the denomination for years while this abuse was occurring.<\/p>\n<p>But Moore has never been too busy to make public comments on matters of far lesser importance than abortion. He had time to publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmoore\/status\/1445363320089944064\">celebrate<\/a> former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins for his \u201cwisdom, expertise, and most of all \u2026 Christian humility and grace,\u201d despite Collins\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/08\/nih-director-francis-collins-isnt-a-national-treasure-hes-a-national-disgrace\/\">disregard<\/a> for human life in the form of grotesque humanized mice experiments using aborted babies, his support for shutting down church during Covid, and his character attacks on those who resisted Covid vaccinations that they were \u201ckilling people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore has in the past publicly swiped at fellow believers under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/may-web-only\/russell-moore-abortion-roe-court-leak-pro-life-evangelical.html\">guise of condemning<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/23\/stop-smearing-christians-as-christian-nationalists-just-because-they-value-both-faith-and-freedom\/\">Christian nationalism<\/a>.\u201d He never missed the chance to comment on the Syrian refugee crisis or white supremacy or the Confederate flag \u2014 or any number of different highly politicized issues. Especially in the last few years, Moore has prioritized political commentary if it meant the chance to beat the Christians to the right of himself as not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/may-web-only\/russell-moore-abortion-roe-court-leak-pro-life-evangelical.html\">loving their neighbor<\/a> the right way \u2014 or at least not <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5932014\/donald-trump-christian-supporters\/\">loving them<\/a> by supporting the policy or the politician he preferred.<\/p>\n<p>As Jackon Waters and Emma Posey astutely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/church-state-and-the-future-of-evangelicalism\/\">noted<\/a> in The American Conservative last year: \u201cThe direction Moore, [David] French, and [Beth] Moore are walking is not simply traditional evangelicalism, but a form of cultural accommodation dressed as convictional religion. The result is a religious respectability that promotes national unity, liberalism, and wokeism under the rhetorical guise of love for neighbor. While [Russell] Moore and his guest try to straddle the fence, there is little doubt that their biggest support is now coming from those significantly to their left politically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This \u201ccultural accommodation dressed as convictional religion\u201d didn\u2019t emerge out of thin air, and it doesn\u2019t exist in a vacuum. It\u2019s a direct result of a Never Trump posture that\u2019s been too arrogant to acknowledge the spiritual faithfulness of anyone who doesn\u2019t share its conclusions that the 45th president is indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it\u2019s the primary reason Moore apparently can\u2019t bring himself to celebrate a hard-fought Supreme Court victory that could result in tens of millions of lives saved over the next few decades: As much as the <em>Dobbs<\/em> ruling is a victory for the church and the pro-life movement, the striking down of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is a victory of the Trump presidency, without which the egregious precedent would not be overturned today.<\/p>\n<p>We know. Trump is a moral stain. Sexual promiscuity. Insurrection. Yada yada yada. But after 63 million lives lost and half a century of blood, sweat, and tears culminating in an answered prayer for something we barely had the faith to ask for, does the chairman of public theology really have nothing to say? <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Christian figureheads of the Never Trump variety have either gone mute or twisted themselves in ideological knots since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. 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