deep into the white evangelical community in recent years.
Kyle Mantyla |
While such allegations have usually been leveled against Democratic politicians and left-leaning entertainment, media, and business leaders, the conspiracy theory now appears to be circling back around on evangelical leaders themselves.
Earlier this week, Right Wing Watch noted how MAGA pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, who is running a primary campaign to unseat Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, has openly embraced QAnon conspiracy theorists as part of his campaign, only to become a target of their conspiracy theories. QAnon activists accused the pastor of pedophilia and child sex trafficking in July after he posted a photo of his young daughter wearing red shoes.
Similar allegations are now being leveled against several high-profile evangelical leaders.
Late last month, self-proclaimed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow posted a “prophetic alert” on his Facebook page in which he warned that “many of our most famous pastors and Christian leaders are about to be exposed as sexual deviants, pedophiles and worse.”
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Reminds me of the denunciations spiral at the height of the purges of the Soviet and Chinese Communist parties.
ReplyDeleteReally funny to see this particular worm turning!
is it too much to hope for that they both lose?
DeleteI have been saying since about 3 months into Trumps presidency that for all the talk of Fascism what Trump and the movement around him most reminded me of was the Bolsheviks, especially Stalins era (obviously without the killings) but the assault on truth, the demand that you don't believe today the thing you were commanded to believe yesterday, the leader worship etc etc and so on, it was always a matter of time before they turned on themselves
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