When Mercy Murders

If your mercy doesn’t reach the child, it isn’t mercy—it’s betrayal

They told us justice was too harsh. That mercy meant sparing the guilty. That we could show the heart of Christ without applying His law.

But mercy without justice is not mercy. It is complicity dressed in kindness.

The modern church has mistaken softness for holiness. It calls cowardice compassion and believes the most Christlike thing to do is to avoid consequences entirely. So we are told not to criminalize abortion, not to hold mothers accountable, not to confront the blood guilt that pollutes the land—because that wouldn’t be merciful.

And yet every child torn limb from limb dies under the banner of that false mercy.

This mercy has no memory of Sinai. No fear of God. No cross, only comfort. It is mercy that would spare Cain and crucify the prophets. It is mercy that hugs Judas and hands him a bag of silver.

Worse yet, this mercy always flows in one direction. Toward the strong. Toward the adult. Toward the mother. Toward the court. But never the child.

Never the child.

The baby receives no mercy. No protection. No due process. No grave.

He is not even granted the dignity of justice after death. Because justice would require naming a criminal. And naming a criminal would divide the coalition. And dividing the coalition might cost us access. Or donors. Or friends in high places.

So we cry mercy while the womb becomes a tomb.

We tell mothers they’re victims of the abortion industry while they sign the dotted line. We say they’re deceived while they schedule the execution. We say they’re hurting while they celebrate it online.

This is not mercy. It is madness.

Christ’s mercy never ignored sin. It forgave the repentant and judged the unrepentant. His first word to the woman caught in adultery was not affirmation. It was command: Go and sin no more.

But we offer no such clarity. No such call. Only soothing words for slaughtered innocence.

If you do not want to punish murder, then you do not want mercy. You want sentiment. And sentiment is not holy. It is profane.

True mercy defends the innocent and restores the guilty through judgment—not by erasing it.

False mercy murders. And God will not acquit

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