Ex-pastor at Pete Hegseth’s church calls for public executions and says Bible backs Ice raids
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Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism

Podcast host Joshua Haymes voices range of extreme views and says liberalism a greater threat to US than neo-Nazism

The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has repeatedly endorsed the Reformation Red Pill podcast, and has appeared on four episodes. But the former pastor who hosts the show, and who attends Hegseth’s theocratic church, has voiced a range of extreme positions in recent months on issues including Ice raids, capital punishment, the racist “great replacement” theory, adultery and neo-Nazism.

The revelations come on top of recent media reports focused on Hegseth also boosting a video of Douglas Wilson and other Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) pastors arguing that women should lose the vote in the United States. They also follow previous revelations about Hegseth’s links to or apparent sympathies for Christian nationalist positions.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 hours ago

      Matthew 5:17-20

      17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

      Jesus himself literally says follow the law (of Moses, OT shit) until heaven and earth fucking die, and anyone that doesn’t follow it won’t see heaven.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 hours ago

          Check out Deconstruction zone and DZDebates on YouTube. Guy was a Christian for 20 years, went to seminary, learned greek and biblical Hebrew so he could read the Bible in the original languages, and through his study became an atheist. He is the least “debate-lord” atheist I’ve seen and has genuinely engaging conversations with people when they’re polite. When they’re belligerent though he roasts them with Bible verses.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      I love how they pull that nonsense, when it’s convenient. But then want the “ten commandments” put up on public land, etc…derrrrrrrp.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        33 minutes ago

        I enjoy asking people to name all ten commandments whenever they bring that shit up - they can never do it. “Uhhhhhh … do not cover thy ass?”

      • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
        3·
        9 hours ago

        It’s almost as if they don’t have any actual beliefs and the rest of you should stop treating them like they do.

    • Rekhyt@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 hours ago

      I’d respond that the parable of the Good Samaritan is specifically showing a “foreigner” (eh, nuance is hard) as the only person who helped the injured man, but that requires critical thinking and some historical context, so basically useless…