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.
Organized religion is social cancer
I grew up super non religious, in school we had a class called religion, but it was more of a mix of arts and crafts and history. Like my religion teacher once even pointed out that dinosaurs and humans never really co existed, as portrait on my drawing. People went to church maybe twice a year and it was pretty full. Even then i was like: wow this is weird and creepy, at least no one believes this stuff. Now, 30 years later, the church is empty and it’s just a historical building where you can go in whenever. They still have some christian stuff in there, but apparently there are only 4 or so people there each time.
It’s weird to see other places just double and quartruple down, like it’s an episode of game of thrones or something.