Christians are being played in so many ways. The manipulations produce results ranging from Christians confidently beclowning themselves to championing the evils of Zionism.
Getting Christians to talk about ANYTHING other the Jesus’s egalitarian message of love and forgiveness is a net gain for the Apex Players, given their Sabbatean/Frankist origins. (Love is kryptonite to the Apex Players.)
Certainly many factions have been manipulated into beclowning themselves, and perhaps none have beclowned themselves more than trans activists, but there has been a massive push to manipulate Christians in the last few years. All manipulated factions argue the same way once they achieve a state of hyper-fragility.
For example, the Apex Players have manipulated Christians into beclowning themselves by insisting on the extraordinary claim that a zygote is a person—meaning its life is worth as much (some say almost as much) as the life of a child or an adult.
Of course, common sense tells us that the life of 1000 zygotes is not worth the life of one person, but upon stating this, I am usually presented with a lifeboat fallacy in which humanity consists of one human and 1000 zygotes—as if that has ever been relevant, but sure, I suppose in some distant dystopian sci-fi future—perhaps when colonizing a new star system, 1000 zygotes could temporarily be more valuable than one person in that isolated context, but how is that relevant at this moment on a planet with ten billion persons? Like I said, beclowned.
As you can probably guess, they are completely impervious to logic. Even when you can get them to contradict themselves, they won’t admit it.
Some points that add perspective:
A real heartbeat begins around 9 weeks. Primitive emotion and thought is around 25 weeks. Self awareness occurs after birth. Memories cannot form until at least 18 months after birth.
Depending on the religion, a soul enters the body at fertilization (Catholics), or 40-80 days later (Protestants), or 120 days later (Islam), or upon drawing its first breath (Judaism), or never (Agnosticism, Atheism).
Even those who hold the supernatural belief that a zygote has a soul do not believe that its soul is destroyed. Nor do most people believe that laws should be based on their supernatural beliefs—let alone on other people’s different supernatural beliefs.
About 50% of naturally fertilized zygotes do not achieve live birth, and about 75% of IVF fertilized zygotes do not achieve live birth, and yet, I have never heard anyone express sadness at these stats. Most people are not even aware of these stats. That’s how unimportant it is.
An acorn is not an oak tree.
It is unethical to initiate force against a person, and a zygote is not a person, but a parent is a person.
Is the life of a 5 year old worth as much as the life of a 90 year old?
Some things that give a person value are: organs, limbs, eyes, speech, sentience, labor, creativity, emotions, personality, character, virtue, beauty, maturity, memories, and relationships with others. A zygote has none of those.
The best examples of Christians beclowning themselves that I have encountered since Israel killed Charlie Kirk, are followers of Frank Turek.