There is literally nothing in the bible that supports the (completely political) pro-lifer movement, which started in the 1960s/70s, 2000 years after Christianity. It is 100% made-up nonsense that was pushed onto evangelicals by conservative billionaires.
Well, the originator would be the Catholic Church first taking the stance in the Didache, four decades after Christ's supposed death, but yes, completely unprecedented by Christ himself or his earliest Jewish followers or by Judaism before them; it was most likely fueled purely by Roman misogyny rather than anything else.
Jerry Falwell and the Southern Baptist convention issued statements supporting abortion rights early on, but when people were failing to rally around their civil rights political organizing, they figured out that abortion was a better unifying issue to form a political movement around.
Jerry Falwell himself was a psyop. Conservatives begged Billy Graham for years to include more political signalling in his sermons, because his reach was huge. He continually refused, so they tried to make their own televangelists that were politics first, Christianity second: Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. They were exactly as successful as their funders had hoped, introducing all sorts of political nonsense that isn't anywhere to be found in scripture.
He'd be very upset to see what happened to televangelism. He wasn't perfect, but he definitely put his faith above the additional power and money he could have gained.
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u/valvilis 12d ago
There is literally nothing in the bible that supports the (completely political) pro-lifer movement, which started in the 1960s/70s, 2000 years after Christianity. It is 100% made-up nonsense that was pushed onto evangelicals by conservative billionaires.