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Christian. Student of the history of totalitarianism and nativism. Author of The Case Against Christian Nationalism. | “a messed up dude.” - Douglas Wilson
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I’m pleased to announce that my book, The Case Against Christian Nationalism, is now available as a free eBook download, in all major formats.
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Have you ever killed a man, David? I've killed two. I would do everything in my power to avoid doing it again. As far as I know about you, you're a PK with no military experience.
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How terrible of a Southern Baptist is William Wolfe? He'll attack a SBC seminary professor and claim he's not Christian, for quoting the BF&M verbatim.
If there's anything we need to "Save the SBC" from, it's power-hungry political actors like William.
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Do you want to see what a real man looks like? It's Chinese house church pastor Wang Yi, who's peaceably serving a nine year prison sentence for preaching the gospel - who goes out of his way to pray for his captors and who praises God for his persecution. He is infinitely more…
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Ask yourself how American conservative Christianity got to a point where our thought-leaders openly believe that someone who consistently conducts themselves in a wholly vile manner can still be Christian, but assume that someone who votes Democrat cannot.
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I want nothing to do with your "Christianity" if it involves blaming a 17 year old girl groomed by an old man for being abused.
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Let's be real. We know he's talking about me. If William can provide a single thing I have written about him that is factually untrue (and that I haven't provided a screenshot of his own words to prove), I am always here to retract.
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Let's talk the out-in-the-open kinist (white nationalist) CREC church in Pella, IA, Christ the Redeemer, pastored by Michael Shover. I have so much evidence that I have to be highly selective here. 🧵 1/11
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As providence would have it,
@William_E_Wolfe
and I did not cross paths today. That means that the last thing I will write on Christian Nationalism for the foreseeable future will be what I would have said to him.
William, until you come to repentance, should you seek a position…
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If you don't want to be "crammed in" with Christian Nationalism, maybe don't join the advisory board of an organization headed by arguably the most belligerent and vitriolic Christian Nationalist in the SBC. Maybe don't have another belligerent on the board of your school.
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“She’s not culpable for the years of sexual grooming by a man over twice her age, while she was a minor, she’s culpable for ultimately succumbing to it,” is the kind of take that should get you barred from ministry.
@scott_m_coley
She is in no way culpable for what was done to her. She is culpable for *her* actions. Not his. Nothing she did at any point excuses the evil done to her. But she remains responsible for her actions, including any sins she committed.
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Have you ever noticed how the guys who are so intent on questioning the history of the Holocaust don't have the same fervor about any other historical event?
I wonder why that is.
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I think one reason these guys dislike me so much is that, in my life, I've checked every box they say is essential to real masculinity... and I'm here to tell you it's all childish vainglory.
The only thing that matters is a man's faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
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The SBC could dissolve tomorrow, churches could revert to local associations based on the confession of their choice, and everything would be just fine.
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Biblical manhood is avoiding someone at a Christian conference for two whole days, because he said he wanted to have a private conversation with you about your behavior.
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In this time of persistent polarization and ubiquitous unease, perhaps we can send a bold message that we will not be divided, by joining in a voice of unanimous proclamation that Doug Wilson is a uniquely terrible writer.
President Trump was just convicted of a number of felony counts in NYC, in a trial that was as stacked as a leaning tier of buttermilks. 1/7
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Pastors and theologians should stay out of politics, but political theorists who can't even exegete should write long-form pieces on speculative theology.
Are you beginning to grasp how ridiculous the Christian Nationalist position is?
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Christian Nationalism breaks young men's brains. It convinces men long sheltered by milktoast evangelicalism that fleshiness is the true, hidden standard. It's an excuse to abandon the most difficult, yet rewarding, tasks of the Christian walk while feeling morally superior.
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William couldn't recognize our own confession of faith, then accused
@mattmillsap
of "openly advocating for overturning laws banning polygamy, child sacrifice, Sati, jihad..." etc.
Now that everyone is rightly condemning his attack, he wants to play the "context" game.
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It’s been less than 48 hours since
@douglaswils
announced his cease and desist letter against
@ExaminingMoscow
and we already have parent-released footage contradicting libel accusation
#1
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We have young men in our churches playing out Hollywoodized war game fantasies in their heads, and men like
@William_E_Wolfe
,
@Byzness
and
@PerfInjust
are throwing gasoline on the fire.
It's long past due that these men, and their mainstream backers, be publicly rebuked.
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.
@NewFoundingOrg
has partnered with an actual Nazi,
@BabyGravy9
, to hawk "natural foods" through conservative podcasts. Let's take a look at
@NateAFischer
's newest buisness partner. 🧵 1/6
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Running around with a flamethrower setting brand logos on fire is an advanced form of “pizza party Christianity”. Doug Wilson is basically whipping his 30-something youth group into a frenzy and then giving a message that’s mostly about doing the “right things.”
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"Dots" is a racial slur for Indians (the Bindi dot many put on their forehead). Still waiting for one pop-Refomed personality to call this guy out by name.
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Let's take a look at who's involved in
@BaptistLeaders
, the new lobbying group headed by
@William_E_Wolfe
that's trying to shape the future of the SBC, specifically those men's ties (or that of their associates) to white nationalism and fascism. 🧵 1/12
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.
@tomascol
is a board member of
@William_E_Wolfe
's
@BaptistLeaders
, sponsored by
@AmReformer
, who were a key part of a campaign to remove
@DavidAFrench
from a side-event at the
#pcaga
. Yet Tom will do a side-event with Donald Trump at
#SBC24
. The hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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I normally wouldn't promote this type of account, but this is a good example of how this bullish mindset is a LARP. In two deployments as an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne, less than 10 men out of ~1000 in my battalion had kills. War isn't Hollywood.
Combat vet with only two kills during the deadliest conflict of the 21st century thus far.
Yikes.
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Hear me out… maybe a lot of people hate conservative Christians not because they reject the gospel (most don’t even know what it is), but because many of our best known personalities treat anyone who disagrees with them like garbage.
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Some Christian Nationalists like to point out that a fair number of liberal Christians follow me, and that I should be ashamed. I'm glad they do. It allows me to show them and others that theologically conservative Christians don't have to treat people to their left like garbage.
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BTW the answer is no, it is not inherently better to marry your own race, and it should be even less a factor for Christians. We're instructed to seek to marry other Christians (1 Corinthians 7:39, 2 Corinthians 6:14) and there's "neither Jew nor Greek" among us (Galatians 3:28).
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If American evangelicalism falls—and that is on the table—it will not be due to its liberalization, but its inability to hold firm to the suffering Messiah above worldly personal peace and affluence.
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It's official! The paperback release of my book, The Case Against Christian Nationalism is next Friday, October 27.
Here's a preview of the back cover, with endorsements from
@ostrachan
and
@Janet_Mefferd
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A few months ago, CNs were denying they were kinist. Now they're saying, "What's wrong with having more affection for your people than others?"
A few months from now they'll be saying, "What's wrong with us wanting to force religious practice through law?"
Recognize the creep.
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@SolusChristus48
I fell into several years of anger and depression after I killed two men in Iraq. I self-medicated with alcohol and debauchery, and would go out looking to get into fights. Praise God that he saved me from that life!
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One of my best friends is a naturalized citizen who practices Hinduism. I would give my life to protect him and his family from anyone who would use state violence to suppress his liberty of conscience, while I am also fully aware that I am his first-line contact with the gospel.
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Someone notified me that
@douglaswils
has leveraged yet another ad hominem attack towards me, calling me “unhinged.” Note that, yet again, he avoids the substance of my arguments. I’m truly honored to have made Doug’s hit list twice in a week. It means I’m over the target.
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On a personal note, it's been a very weird year. I'm just a nerd who's read a lot of books on a very particular ideology, and who feels strongly compelled to expose those pushing that ideology in the Christian ecosystem. If you support my writing, your prayers are appreciated.
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Nothing they say about me will change the fact that there’s a CREC church full of white nationalists in Pella, IA.
They want you talking about anything but that.
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The ridiculous CN AI propaganda imagery has really ramped up in the last month. From Stephen Wolfe’s roided-up Zwingli, to Ben Zeisloft’s Knights Templar taking over Ohio, to Eric Conn’s fantasy adventure land of Christendom, I think this movement is jumping the shark.
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Why is it always the guys who have no real experience with lethal violence (Haywood, Abbotoy, Isker, and now Zeisloft) who are so keen on promoting it?
Could it be because they're all poseurs?
Christian men must have an incredibly high capacity & capability for loving their enemies & praying for those who persecute them.
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"That's right, boys! It's time to mount up! I'm ready to secede from the Union and take this country for Jesus! What? No, I won't give you my real name. I don't want to lose my job."
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Everyone knows this app is full of white nationalist anons, everyone knows that the Christian Nationalists favorably interact with the white nationalist anons, yet nobody seems pressed to come to the obvious conclusion.
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I am pleased to announce that the paperback version of my book, The Case Against Christian Nationalism, is now available for purchase in all Amazon markets!
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So now they're going after my wife. Bold men of God here.
We met during a time that we had both walked away from the church. We were both quite leftist. It was our interactions with that world that eventually brought us back to Christ. We both hold to orthodox sexual morality.
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I've been waiting for a sign from God that this platform is beyond saving.
Douglas Wilson is our age's C. S. Lewis and some of y'all are taking it pretty hard.
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I'm still blown away that
@albertmohler
, when asked about Paul Pressler while on a panel that he knew was being recorded, gave a few seconds to a political answer on the actual abuse and then went straight into a diatribe about how this could affect his bureaucratic ecosystem.
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There have been enough faithful Christians with overwhelming experience in mental health who have expertly refuted John MacArthur within the last 24 hours that a humble emissary of the gospel would have no choice but to admit his error.
A very straightforward test of character.
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The proper response is not to worry about this, but to laugh at how ridiculously self-unaware this movement is. If someone in your church decides to go to this, worry about *him* and minister to him personally, but the event itself is beyond satire.
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The Bronze Age Mindset will hollow out your religion and wear it like a skinsuit.
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says women should not be allowed to vote because politics is war and "the sword has been given to men": "The sword is—without being crude, I think this is a fact—it is a phallus. It is assigned by God to men.”
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When was the last time you saw a Christian Nationalist quote the Sermon on the Mount? Those two things are like oil and water.
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This type of writing, which name-brand CNs shied away from until recently, signals that they misdiagnose where the Overton window is, or that they’ve resigned to be cult leaders. Either way, I’d wager < 5% of Americans want anything to do with this, and < 1% with his “solution.”
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"Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?"
Note that Dusty Deevers is a SBC pastor and Wolfe's theory is in direct contradiction to multiple articles of the BF&M. As a Law Amendment supporter Dusty must now remove his church from the SBC for not being in cooperation with the BF&M.
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Can we take a second to appreciate how badly broken the public Reformed though-space is that a man who acts like
@PerfInjust
does towards
@HwsEleutheroi
is still taken seriously as an intellectual by a great number of people? As someone not raised in this world, it blows my mind.
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Nearly every white nationalist will tell you that they’re not racist. It’s linguistic obfuscation pretending that “love for one’s race” is distinct from hatred of other “races.” When you’re behind closed doors with these guys, these cheap semantics are quickly proven false.
"Kinism" and "preferring kin" is just an academic-linguistic cover for the same thing a Klan member communicates when he says, "I'm not racist, I just think everyone should stick to their own kind."
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How wild that
@douglaswils
accuses me of the nonexistent category of slander by omission. 😂
When you have multiple prominent people in the church, including the pastor, making public claims that go against a “church statement” then it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.
Callens slandered Pella’s statement on ethnicity by ignoring it. And some of the more rancid ethnic statements that were posted slandered that same statement in the very same way. By ignoring it. 5/5
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@newvangelicals
@megbasham
More irresponsible than stunting the development of an entire generation of children?
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You can be a clear-as-day wolf in the Reformed book/conference circuit and maintain a thriving career as long as your ministry is focused on making enemies with theological and political liberals.
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Think for a few seconds about how this would be enforced. As a software engineer I’ll help you: the government would have to sniff all your comms with AI.
The horseshoe theory of authoritarian government surveillance. This performative bill is unconstitutional and DOA.
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Straight up, I can show irrefutable evidence of a white nationalist church, in a very newsworthy denomination, to a well-known Twitter Christian and they'll often shrug their shoulders and go back to retweeting LibsOfTikTok.
That is what ideological capture looks like.
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Prophets, huh? Assuredly Conn sees himself under this title, given how he writes about it.
What’s comical is how nobody in supposed “Reformed” Christian Nationalism will rebuke him, because they value the political over the theological.
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Tonight I gave my testimony to our youth group, which included seeing the evil humanity is capable of in Afghanistan, realizing my own total depravity, and how I failed miserably, for many years, to find the solution without Jesus.
To think yourself different is utter delusion.
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I’m quite fascinated with the increasingly narcissistic eisegesis of Joel Webbon. The way he reads himself into the parable of the prodigal son and Jacob and Esau is exactly what the clips in the first half hour of a documentary on a messianic cult sound like.
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If you want to to make your brand “biblical masculinity,” you probably shouldn’t have a fragile ego.
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I sense that the wind is leaving the sails of the Christian Nationalist movement, and that their behavior is starting to become a parody of itself. There aren’t any effective strategies flowing from their camp, and they’re not gaining any new big names or real world momentum.
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Stephen Wolfe wrote a book with an entire chapter dedicated to justifying violent revolution to instate a "Christian" minority over an unwilling majority, capping it off with a call to action.
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Nobody wants to watch grandpa joke about how sexy Victoria's Secret models should be. Not only is this unbecoming of a 70yo pastor, it's just plain nasty.
These are the people trying to tell you that they should be the moral arbiters of a "Christian nation".
You realize that the cultural landscape is pretty grim. How grim is it? Well, conservative Christians are being tempted to think that Victoria's Secret abandoning plus-size models and going back to the sexy ones is a sign of pending revival.
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The CNs trying to take over the SBC are looking to force a Presbyterian view of the civil magistrate and denominational polity into the Baptist tradition. It's not about Baptist particulars at all. It's raw political desire for control of the nation's largest "denomination."
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It must be said again: Christian Nationalism, especially as defined by Stephen Wolfe, is wholly unconcerned with the disciple's duty to emulate Christ in peaceably accepting suffering for doing good (1 Peter 2:20-25), and therefore cannot be called legitimately Christian.
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@newvangelicals
No thanks. I'm not interested in you injecting Foucault into Christianity.
We have nearly 2000 years of orthodox doctrine to draw from.
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At this point it takes quite a lot to make me genuinely cringe. Congratulations to Ben for accomplishing that task.
Seriously, though, how to these kids (and I really mean that word) expect us to take them seriously?
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People who defend chattel slavery while complaining that the "postwar consensus" changed America's demographics to disfavor their "kin" have nothing of value to bring to the ecclesial table. Hand them over to Satan (excommunicate them) until they come to repentance.
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.
@PerfInjust
is out here trying to guess who my sources are on the white nationalist CREC church that his buddies are members of.
0 for 3, Stephen. My sources are everyday CREC members who are tired of your friends pushing kinism in the denomination.
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There's so much I could write, but I'll point out that this pastor wrote an eleven-part thread on the case for "Christian" nationalism and didn't quote Scripture once. There was only a loose reference to staying away from idols, which could equally apply to his whole movement.
The case for Christian nationalism in one short thread. Stay tuned. 1/11
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I'm going to be straight up here. I've never met a man who has truly had his heart radically changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ who would minimize the world-flipping power of the Holy Spirit in this way.
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I'd be interested to know if William Wolfe has any ancestry other than what they used to call "Teutonic/Nordic"? If so, then he is the product of larger mass immigration that Nativists before him claimed would destroy America, and 100 years ago he'd be considered of "mixed-race."
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What really amazes me is how many people continue to treat Doug Wilson as a legitimate thought-leader when his most common conversation strategy is to be dodgier than a jacket full of watches.
With all due respect, “back and forth” is a phrase that implies we’ve been talking to one another. In reality, you’ve been posting AT me without actually interacting WITH me or answering any of my direct questions.
Now, you toss another word salad my way? Let’s do a recap …🧵
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This stuff cracks me up. It also serves as a reminder that most of the Christian Nationalist online fan base (which is the vast majority of their actual influence) is made up of disaffected young men, hiding behind avatars, raging with the reasoning of a tantruming child.
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Who would have imagined that Dusty Deevers walking into the Oklahoma State Senate and immediately throwing his party's leadership under the bus would result in them not wanting to work with him?
This is Christian Nationalism.
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Christian, ask yourself, "If the policies I'm supporting are what a thoroughly sinful man like Andrew Torba considers 'based', am I really working for the glory of God?"
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Thank you so much to everyone defending me. Contrary to popular CN opinion, I'm not a government agent 😂; I really am just a guy who feels convicted to counter a particular false teaching, the ideological origins of which I have a unique understanding of. (Matt. 5:11, 10:25)
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Manosphere dudes: "If you don't openly and repeatedly denounce Russell Moore and David French you're a... rEgiMe EVangELical!"
Manosphere dudes when they're challenged to repudiate a guy who literally wrote "Hitler had a point."
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So here you have the CEO of New Founding and co-founder of
@AmReformer
, Nate Fischer, proudly announcing that he's in business with an actual Nazi. Should we be surprised that he's also a president of one of Charles Haywood's semi-secret society lodges? /end
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A question for anyone, because Stephen will likely ignore it:
How has the state enforced moral degeneracy on you *personally*?
Not what they've permitted that you're free to avoid. Not holidays you can ignore or a public school system you can opt out of.
Personally *enforced*
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“You’ve slandered men by taking pictures of their own words and posting them” is something that can only be believed by the terminally online of Christian Twitter.
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Van Der Molen (1st on left) is quite prolific in his antisemitism, which is more than evident on his account, but here's a post using the Nazi "Blut und Boded" slogan from yesterday: 5/11
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My multiple sources in the CREC say that this is a wide-open secret and that members even talk about "that one church" openly. This church is in good standing in the denomination,
@uribrito
. I have much, much more. 11/11
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In the ☝️ photo, you have Shover, Jesse Van Der Molen, Darrell Dow, and Thomas Achord, among others. The account belongs to Van Der Molen, who regularly posts pictures of himself on it. It's well known among those in the CREC that the account is his, despite the "Tom" handle.…
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Until you realize that what we're witnessing isn't so much the radicalization of a Christian worldview, but the Christianization of a radical worldview, you won't be able to fully counter the phenomenon.
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This is the performative masculinity front of the patriarchy crowd. Actually masculine men are not threatened that their wife may come to different conclusions than them, even on secondary doctrinal issues. This is weakness masking itself as "strength" and building a bubble.
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I learned of William Wolfe in Nov '22—he was one of the people most aggressively maligning those who told the truth about Achord's racist account. I've never seen him change behavior, only targets. That the pop-Reformed world still plays nice with him is proof of its rottenness.
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For the sake of argument, say I’m really a super duper high speed federal agent.
Does that change the fact that there’s a CREC church full of white nationalists in Pella, IA?
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I was wrong. It took dozens of tries over two days, but I finally got the sentence that I found suspect in
@kkdumez
's tweet. She was telling the truth.
CC:
@megbasham
@William_E_Wolfe
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