Right Wing Preachers
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(2021 Jun blog post)
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INTRODUCTION : This blog page presents a list of extremist, right-wing, self-appointed 'pastors' who cannot 'live-and-let-live'. These 'preachers' typically claim to have conversations with their God (He talks to them; they talk to Him), and these (mostly self-ordained) 'ministers' demand that everyone worships their brand of religion. These self-appointed 'pastors' (who typically graduated from a seminary of themselves) pretend they are 'persecutees', when, actually, they are trying to become 'persecutors'. These evangelical 'pastors' claim that they do not have religious freedom, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, while they are actually trying to abridge the religious freedoms of those who do not supplicate themselves to their brand of worship. Religious freedom includes the freedom "not to practice a religion" --- or to have different beliefs about the world (such as belief in an amazing universe but one that does not care whether the human species lives or dies). But these preachers and 'televangelists' want to force their particular (often crazy) religious beliefs onto everyone else in the country. It is an absolute farce that these 'pastors' claim they are being persecuted. They have many avenues of expression available to them --- the internet (including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and many other video, audio, and text outlets) --- as well as TV broadcasts and radio broadcasts and book publishings and mailings and e-mailings. It is a complete joke that they claim to be persecuted. On the contrary, these 'pastors' are constantly trying to 'inject' their beliefs into the lives of others --- for example, by forcing their beliefs into public schools and by trying to censor and burn books (including scientific books) that do not conform to their beliefs. In fact, evangelists have managed to get 'In God We Trust' put on almost all paper money and coinage of the United States. And, in 1954, they got Congress to insert 'under God' into the Pledge of Allegiance. These are actually violations of the Constitution since 'In God We Trust' and 'under God' force a particular kind of religion (an extremist form of mono-theism or duo-theism or tri-theism) onto agnostics and atheists --- who make up about 10% of the U.S. population --- with 'unaffiliated' making up more than 25% of the U.S. population. I remember being in elementary school in the 1950's. All of a sudden, starting in 1954, we were required to say the Pledge in school differently --- with the new 'under God' phrase. I think it is clear that a 'strict Constitutionalist' would say those God-phrases on money and in the Pledge are un-constitutional. More acceptable (and constitutional) would be ' In Good We Trust' and 'under Good'.
NOTE: Unfortunately, the Republican Party has cynically noted this and has used this extremist-religion population to boost the political influence of the 'one-percenters'. The right-wing-Republican media constantly 'manufactures' various 'persecutions' --- such as classifying a need to wear masks in a pandemic as 'persecution' --- or claiming that people, such as Democrats, hate Christmas & Thanksgiving - this being some kind of 'persecution' of evangelical Christians - even though most of them annually observe Christmas & Thanksgiving.
In brief: These 'manufactured persecutions' seem to appeal to evangelicals' masochistic desire to feel persecuted. Each of the self-ordained, evangelical 'pastors' is cultivating their own unique brand of cult --- requiring a slavish devotion to certain beliefs and persons (such as the pastor and Trump). Each pastor-and-cult is trying to establish a National Religion in the image of their particular cult. This is clearly a violation of the 'freedom of religion' portion ( 1st Amendment ) of the U.S. Constitution --- which was written precisely to avoid the kind of establishment of national religions that occurred in Europe --- very bloodily, it should be added (Wars of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation).
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WHO IS 'KEEPING-AN-EYE-ON' You would think there should be some section of the U.S. government that would be keeping an eye out for 'pastors' who are aggressively trying to establish a National Relgion --- contrary to the religious-freedom provisions of the U.S. Constitution. It seems that a natural U.S. agency tasked with protecting religious freedoms (including the right to be free-FROM-an-autocratic-religion) would be the Department of Justice. And since the Department of Justice (DOJ) is not equipped to do investigations and monitoring of 'bad actors' who may be aggressively trying the subvert the U.S. Constitution, the DOJ would probably have to use the services of an agency like the FBI --- to monitor 'pastors' who seem to be potential 'bad actors'. BUT ... it seems that is not happening. Major reasons why this is not done are (probably):
In the absence of monitoring action by the DOJ-and-FBI, the United States has to depend on concerned citizens and citizen-groups to 'keep an eye on' the pastors-and-cults seeking to establish a National Religion --- citizens, citizen groups, and their web sites such as and video/audio podcasts, such as Telltale (named after an Edgar Allen Poe poem) --- which is manned by a person who grew up in the Jehovah's Witnesses cult. By watching YouTube videos such as the 'Telltale' YouTube videos, one can assemble a list of self-appointed 'pastors' who favor a National Religion --- including several who advocate for the use of violence to establish a National Religion. Such an 'extremist-pastors-list' follows --- essentially a list of right-wing religious cults. |
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LIST of EXTREMIST (CRAZY-and-DANGEROUS) PASTORS: The following list is in order by the person's last name. Each name is a link to a WEB SEARCH to facilitate finding more information about that person. You can add 'keywords' to each of these searches --- keywords such as 'youtube' or 'crazy' or 'constitution' or 'religious' or 'freedom' --- in order to find specific types of information.
And there are hundreds more of these cretins --- as you can see if you follow other preacher-names that show up in the web searches above. Their churches may receive tax-exemptions from the U.S. government, but the million-dollar-per-year pay of many of these preachers should be subject to the same tax schedule as the rest of U.S. citizens --- especially the preachers who are buying (or having the church buy them) one or even two jet planes--- and the preachers buying their wife (or having the church buy their wife) a Lamborhini SUV. I am happy to pay a little more in taxes to restore funding to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) to take on the time-consuming task of getting the scummier of these scumbags to pay their 'fair share' of federal taxes --- to support the 50% of federal government that is the Defense Department (Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Air Force, Space Force), Department of Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, NSA, Customs and Border Patrol, etc. etc. |
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CONCLUSION & SUMMARY: Most of the cult-pastors listed above claim to be "Christian" --- even though many of their statements and actions seem very un-Christ-like. I guess I should not be surprised by this. The Christ-based religious wars in Europe, over many centuries, were very un-Christ-like. The Christ-pastor-list above is presented irrespective of their Christ-likeliness rating. BUT ... this page is not meant to solely 'call attention to' extremist-Christian-cults. Other religions, God-worshipers, and cults are of concern as a threat of the 'freedom-of-religion-and-freedom-from-religion' portion of the U.S. Constitution. For example, Islam. Although there are U.S. citizens who claim that Islam is a peaceful relgion, this is a quite naive (and invalid) generalization. It is common to see TV images of street scenes in the Middle East with thousands, if not tens-of-thousands, of demonstrators shouting 'death to the infidels' and other such pleasantries. It would be extremely naive to expect that Islam is free from the kinds of 'sub-groups' (cults) that are common to the "Christian persuasion". In fact, many Islamic 'ministers' preach a philosophy of theocracy --- that goverment should be by a religion --- specifically, the Islamic religion. This is a clear-and-present danger to the U.S. Constitution. It is important to recognize that there are CULTS WITHIN ALL KINDS OF RELIGIONS that are a danger to preservation of the religious-freedom "guaranteed" by the U.S. Constitution. We have been shown by recent 2021 events (such as the invasion of the U.S. Captitol by a violent, and partially murderous, mob) that the Constitution GUARANTEES NOTHING. The Constitution is a statement of ideals. It takes action (legislative, executive, judicial) to make sure those ideals are preserved. I offer my thanks to the many individuals and organizations (including a few mentioned above) that seek to 'keep-an-eye-on' religious cults and organizations that simply cannot be trusted to 'live-and-let-live', peacefully. We need Congress to pass some laws that 'shore up' the apparently-weak religious freedom section of the U.S. Constitution. And we need the Executive department (such as DOJ and FBI and IRS) to enforce those laws --- and we need the courts to support those laws, rather than 'gutting' them.
By the way, China must be loving the fact that these pastors and their 'flock' (and their 'progeny') are lowering the combined-IQ of the United States so much that the U.S. is falling behind China in so many areas --- computer chips, robotics, space exploration, high-speed rail, building construction, etc etc. Furthermore, China must be loving the fact that Senator Moscow Mitch McConnell has been practicing a legislative policy of 'No' in the Obama years, and then the Biden years. China must love it that the evangilist-loving Republican Party has been concentrating legislation on --- instead of passing legislation dealing with infrastructure, climate heat, and other issues that could help the U.S. stay strong and competitive with China. The Chinese Communist planning committees are out-planning the recalcitrant, ignorant-of-what's-happening-in-the-world Republican Party. |
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For further information : Here are some keyword WEB SEARCHES that you can use to look for more information (especially emerging new information) on various threats to U.S. religious freedom. You can try the following keywords --- then change them to zero-in on better information. For further information, you can try the following Wikipedia pages, and follow links on those pages for even more information. |
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