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David French, Russell Moore, and the Politics of Selective Compassion

by | Mar 24, 2025 | News

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I ran across a tweet by Elon Musk this morning that got me thinking—a rare moment of clarity slicing through the pious fog of evangelical open-borderism. It showed a crowd of South African leftists—dressed in their standard-issue revolutionary cosplay—chanting in unison for the death of white farmers.

Yes, “Kill the Boer,” the old Marxist hymn, resurrected yet again. This time, sung like a national anthem in a stadium packed with red shirts and dead consciences.

Meanwhile, a recent law passed in South Africa allows the state to seize land from white owners without compensation. That’s not a conspiracy theory—that’s just Tuesday in a country that’s traded apartheid for reverse-engineered Marxist tribalism.

And somehow, through all the noise about “human rights,” “refugees,” and “the least of these,” the professional religious voices of moral outrage have once again gone suspiciously mute.

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Where’s David French? Is he off polishing another essay on the spiritual dangers of Christian nationalism? Where’s Russell Moore? Drafting a sermon about the Southern Baptist Convention’s original sin of existing? Where’s Bill Kristol? Off somewhere dreaming up the next war to send your son to, as long as the borders of other nations remain sacrosanct.

Their silence isn’t just loud—it’s calculated. Deafening not because they forgot to speak, but because they chose not to. The same men who would sooner canonize a Honduran border-crosser than acknowledge the existence of ICE are nowhere to be found when the white, Christian, Afrikaner farmer is being hunted like livestock in the dark.

Why?

Because there’s no political upside. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

But let me explain further.

The white South African doesn’t fit the narrative, doesn’t check the boxes, doesn’t play the role that these professional outrage artists cast for “the suffering refugee.” He’s not an illiterate, blue-voting demographic import. He’s not a drag queen fleeing persecution in Uganda. He’s not a future MSNBC viewer waiting to be naturalized. He’s quite possibly a future Bible-believing, gun-owning, family-raising conservative who would ruin the whole scheme if you let him in.

And make no mistake—that is the scheme. The borderless gospel isn’t about charity. It’s about engineering a permanent political majority. It’s not “love your neighbor”; it’s “import a new electorate.” It’s not about the huddled masses—it’s about the registered voters. That’s why they weep for caravans and turn their backs on Boer blood.

Because compassion, in their hands, is a weapon. It’s not universal—it’s targeted. It’s not biblical—it’s political. These men don’t apply Scripture—they weaponize it. They’ve remade the parable of the Good Samaritan into a PAC fundraising pitch. The gospel has become a revolving door for progressive policy, where repentance is optional, but voting blue is mandatory.

And the irony? It reeks like a rotting fig tree. These are the same people who lecture us on “systemic racism,” all while propping up a system that screens its victims by pigmentation and party registration. A thousand white South Africans could be slaughtered tomorrow, and ten thousand Christians in Syria can be slaughtered this week, and it wouldn’t earn a single pearl-clutch from French. It wouldn’t register a tremble in Moore’s voice. It wouldn’t break Bill Kristol’s stride on his way to the next MSNBC panel to warn us about “democracy dying in darkness.”

Their silence is their confession.

It tells you everything. Compassion, yes—but only for the politically useful. Empathy, sure—but only for those who will cast the right ballot. Tears, indeed—but only for those who can be molded into pawns.

Let’s put it plainly. If the white South African were a transgender asylum seeker with a rainbow flag and a grievance against capitalism, the private jets would already be lining up. The New York Times would’ve run the expose. Russell Moore would’ve written a three-part series and a podcast at Christianity Today. French would be writing love letters to Leviticus 19. And Kristol? He’d be funding the NGO.

But this refugee? This one very likely prays to God, votes for the wrong party, and threatens to disrupt the demographic alchemy required to keep the permanent revolution rolling.

So, they let him bleed.

They sip their lattes in Nashville, nodding along to NPR, while men are slaughtered in their fields for the sin of being white and owning land. They pen thinkpieces on kindness while ignoring genocide. They invoke Christ’s name to justify policies that empower cartel traffickers, MS-13 recruiters, and foreign nationals who wouldn’t know John 3:16 from a fortune cookie.

This isn’t compassion. This is cold, political calculus. This is the religion of the ruling class dressed in clerical robes. The altar is still there, but the offering has changed. It’s no longer a lamb—it’s your country. It’s your future. It’s your vote.

And somewhere in the dark, a white South African family loads their last few belongings into a truck, praying it won’t be torched before sunrise. They look to the West. They hope someone will notice. Someone will speak. Someone will help.

But French is too busy hunting “Christian nationalists.” Moore is too busy washing the feet of the DNC. And Kristol? He’s just checking the polling numbers.

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