When Christians are assessing which of the political parties is more moral, abortion is obviously a big issue. After all, if a person resorts to murdering an innocent person to avoid consequences for their own behavior, that’s pretty immoral. But do you know what else is pretty immoral? Inflicting harm on children that exposes them to severe mental and physical pain, and permanent disabilities.

Here’s a recent article from Christian Post:

A Texas surgeon, who is potentially facing 10 years in prison for having leaked information exposing Texas Children’s Hospital for allegedly continuing to perform trans procedures on minors despite claiming otherwise, said his ordeal has convinced him of God’s providence.

Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, told The Christian Post that he feels God is with him in his battle against the U.S. Department of Justice, which slapped him earlier this month with four felony counts after he “obtained personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization,” according to a DOJ press release.

Haim reportedly leaked such records to journalist Christopher Rufo last year because the hospital told the public it had paused such procedures after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott labeled them child abuse, though Haim uncovered documents that showed otherwise.

I thought his explanation about what is going on in society was very interesting:

Haim believes every major institution in the U.S. has been “captured by this ideology” that endeavors to elevate narcissistic, selfish desires above objective reality and that anyone attempting to expose such things risks being attacked.

“So if someone within those institutions is willing to tell the truth, it shines a light on their own degradation, which is why they try so hard to destroy those people,” he said. “Because if they can destroy the one person who’s telling the truth, who’s shining the light, then they can reestablish the balance where everyone’s degraded. But once you have one person who’s going to speak the truth, who’s willing to stand up, it will inevitably inspire others to do the same thing, too. And the process becomes exponential.”

The article quotes Texas senator Ted Cruz expressing his concerns about anti-Christian bias within the Department of Justice, but everybody already knows that there are two systems of justice in America. One for Democrats, and one for the enemies of the Democrats.

I did want to add a quick point about what is really evil on the Christian worldview. Today, many people assume that Christianity is a religion of love, and you just have to love everyone, and never judge. And they think you can be a good Christian by doing that. We’ve turned not rocking the boat into a virtue. I’ve heard so many adult Christians excuse themselves from truth-telling exactly along those lines. “You just have to love everybody, what’s the point of getting into disagreements with people”.

So, what does Christianity really say about right and wrong? Well, here is an interesting passage with the words of Jesus about that.

Matthew 18:6-9:

6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!

8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Here’s a picture of a millstone.

I don’t think this passage is a warning just for Christians. If I were a non-Christian, and read this passage, I would immediately understand that God does not want me to interfere with children who are seeking God. So, even if I didn’t want to follow Jesus like a Christian, I would know “well, I have to be careful about doing things that could cause children to turn away from God”. And a lot of non-Christians know this intuitively. I used to work with an atheist software developer who was very concerned about making life difficult for people who were either coming towards God, or who were taking their faith seriously.

A lot of people today are so unaware of what the Bible teaches, that they think being “good” means “loving everyone” and “don’t judge”. They think that God, if he exists, would want us all of us humans to feel good, and to always get along with everyone. Well, tough news for them. Following God – obeying God – does not make Christians feel good, and it does not make non-Christians like us. You can see it in the story of Jesus, who obeyed God, and did not feel good and people did not like him. I am not sure how we got to the point where Christianity is seen as a kind of Disney fairy tale, but when you actually read the Bible, you understand that you are not supposed to do anything that keeps kids from Jesus, and you’re not supposed to punish Christians like this medical doctor who stand up for God and his purposes in the world. It’s worse than murder to punish an authentic Christian for his decision to obey God.

You would think that in America, even secular leftists would have some shame about this and say “well, we are going to live with our girlfriends but we’re not going to abort babies. We’re also not going to mutilate kids, because that would probably cause them to turn their backs on God”. But sadly, we don’t live in a world where secular leftists know that. They think “I’m a good person. I follow my own made-up morality, and so of course God is going to think I’m a good person”. Just because you feel good now, and people like you now, don’t make the mistake of thinking that’s the criterion for avoiding the millstone. Read the Bible, that’s the standard you have to meet.