The Christian Nationalist Value of Starving Families | The Tim & April Show

Hunger has a way of exposing what a country actually believes. You can read every policy statement, every press release, and still miss the truth until the shelves go bare — until families start rationing dinner while their government funds private jets and foreign bailouts. The theology of American exceptionalism has always depended on pretending that suffering is someone else’s fault, that the poor are poor because they failed a moral test. But faith, stripped of empathy, just becomes another word for hierarchy.

What Tim and April name here isn’t just policy negligence — it’s the rot at the core of a movement that calls itself Christian while weaponizing starvation. The same leaders who preach about “life” are voting to take food from children and healthcare from parents. They’ve traded the Sermon on the Mount for a balance sheet, sanctifying cruelty as if the kingdom of God were built on austerity. There’s no gospel in this, only governance by grievance.

Still, somewhere beyond the noise, people are refusing to accept that this is normal. They’re raising mutual aid funds, feeding neighbors, and doing what the church forgot how to do — taking care of one another without permission. It’s not charity; it’s reclamation. Every grocery card, every shared meal, is a quiet act of rebellion against a system that says compassion must be earned.

Maybe grace was never supposed to trickle down. Maybe it moves sideways — hand to hand, neighbor to neighbor — until even the architects of this cruelty are forced to see what love actually looks like.

Tim Whitaker is the founder of The New Evangelicals, and April Ajoy is the author ofStar Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism And Finding True Faith.

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