Christianists

David French writes at The Dispatch: Why do I say this was a Christian insurrection? Because so very many of the protesters told us they were Christian, as loudly and clearly as they could. The Atlantic’s invaluable religion reporter, Emma Green, compiled considerable evidence of the Christian presence in her excellent report. I saw much of it with my own …

CBS News reports: Conversion therapy is currently still legal in Indiana, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence, who has long been criticized for his anti-LGBTQ positions. But this week, state legislators formally introduced a bill to ban the discredited “therapy” for minors. Democratic State Senator J.D. Ford has authored Senate Bill 32, which would prohibit mental health counselors …

Law & Crime reports: A law professor and attorney for President Donald Trump who repeatedly said the 2020 election was rigged and spoke at the rally that immediately preceded last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol baselessly blamed the violent insurrection on “Antifa” on Wednesday. Chapman University law professor John Eastman, who last year spawned the birther theory that Kamala …

Gizmodo reports: This morning PayPal confirmed to Gizmodo that it has cut ties with GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding platform which hosts fundraisers for, among other causes, Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. Since a Trumpist mob descended on D.C. last week with pipe bombs, zip ties, and feces, ultimately storming the Capitol Building in a siege …

Televangelist Jeremiah Johnson writes on Facebook: Over the last 72 hours, I have received multiple death threats and thousands upon thousands of emails from Christians saying the nastiest and most vulgar things I have ever heard toward my family and ministry. I have been labeled a coward, sellout, a traitor to the Holy Spirit, and cussed out at least 500 …

“We’ve got to acknowledge that what happened Wednesday at the Capitol was not only a crime, it was a sin against God. The people who stormed that Capitol, the people who killed that police officer, were not a part of the kingdom of God, as some people claimed; they were a part of the kingdom of Satan.” – Cultist megachurch …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Match.com has taken a dangerous step into the darkness with its new satanic commercials that use the slogan a “Match Made in Hell” and feature Satan using the online dating site/app to be matched with a young woman named 2020. They discover they are both from hell; they hit it off and …

The Christian Post reports: Russell Moore, a prominent theologian and president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has called on President Donald Trump to resign from office after some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. “Mr. President, people are dead,” Moore wrote in response to Trump’s Friday tweet. “The Capitol is ransacked. …

Scamvangelist Jeremiah Johnson writes: My aim in this public apology is twofold. First, I would like to repent for inaccurately prophesying that Donald Trump would win a second term as the president of the United States. I refuse to blame the saints and say, “It didn’t come to pass because they did not pray enough.” Nor will I proclaim, “Donald …

Pastor Caleb Cooper writes for Charisma News: As I stepped on the soil of our great nation’s Capitol, I could see and hear the sound of a patriotic army marching to the declarations of “Stop the steal,” “USA,” “God bless America” and “Say no to communism.” Jericho marches were happening around the Capitol. I entered the south side as prayer …

Via email from hate group leader Mat Staver: Throngs of concerned marchers filled Washington, DC as members of Congress began the House and Senate sessions objecting to the electoral certification of Arizona. The shocking events we all witnessed do not change the facts concerning the 2020 general election. The fraud has not changed, and neither has our mission to shine …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: There are those who will say that the real villains of the siege were Antifa or some other fascists in disguise. And that may be true. Over the next few days, it’ll be up to law enforcement to make those determinations. But there are conservatives who condone the lawlessness that took place …

“They have a right to protest. To tell people to go home, it’s not for me to decide that. The people who broke the windows in the Capital did not look like the people out there demonstrating. Most likely it was antifa. For people busting windows, they need to go home. But for people standing out there peacefully holding flags, …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: When things started looking bleak on the morning of November 4th, conservatives held tightly to one comfort: At least we have the Senate. Two long and punishing months later, even that consolation is slipping away. Disappointment has been a familiar friend to a lot of Americans these last several weeks. More than …

Via press release from the Justice Department: The Justice Department announced today that Sonia Tabizada, age 36, of San Jacinto, California, pleaded guilty in federal court to intentionally obstructing persons in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs by threatening to bomb the Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., in violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: A number of Republican Senators have said that they will not vote Wednesday to certify the results of the presidential election until there is an audit of states in question. I don’t know about you, but that seems reasonable to me. If I were former Vice President Joe Biden, I would want to make …

Franklin Graham writes on his Facebook page: Joe Biden has warned of a “dark winter” for our nation—and he’s right. But the dark winter we are facing is not due just to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s due to the moral decline of our nation and the political corruption we see throughout our country. My prayer is that truth will prevail …

The Christian Post reports: With the high-stakes Georgia Senate runoff elections just days away, a prayer march is set to take place in the state’s capital and largest city of Atlanta on Saturday. Chaired by Bishop Wellington Boone of Atlanta and Jim Garlow [photo] of San Diego, California, the Georgia Prayer March will take place at the Georgia Statehouse on …

Religion News Service reports: Organizers of the Jericho March, slated for Tuesday (Jan. 5) and Wednesday (Jan. 6), have called on “patriots, people of faith and all those who want to take back America” to travel to Washington on those days for a pair of marches to overturn the recent presidential election. Marchers plan to blow ritual Jewish horns called …

Los Angeles’ ABC News affiliate reports: Despite warnings from public health officials to stay home on New Year’s Eve, a number of public gatherings took place throughout Southern California, including another maskless event hosted by actor Kirk Cameron. In recent weeks, Cameron has openly defied COVID-19 mandates and hosted two caroling events in Thousand Oaks as the region deals with …