Matthew Forbush, a local TikToker with nearly 100k followers, recently pointed us to a video he made denouncing a local pastor he describes as having extremist views.
“I’m not building this to attack anyone’s faith but to bring awareness,” he writes, showing examples of what he calls speech that is “hyper islamophobic, homophobic, & overusing political rhetoric in sermons.”
We decided not to name the church or the pastor but did look through publicly available social media which included in a joint church / pastor post crossing out the word Pride and releasing a graphic which said June is Life Month.
In a more recent instance, there was a repost with the recent viral AP photo of the five-year-old Minnesota boy Liam Conejo Ramos with a hand holding onto his backpack, with the heading “deceptively-edited images and videos designed to emotionally manipulate people into frenzied opposition of law-enforcement with viral propaganda like this …” even though the image is authentic.
Another post states “As we see more radical left and Islamic domination partner together for control of our nation, it begs a question. Where are the Christian Shepherds who see the wolves coming? ” (with that last part in all CAPS.)
Another post states “Christianity does not coexist with religions,” while one has a sentence starting with “every other religion is “fathered” by Satan …”.
Forbush said that to him the most disturbing social media post he came across has the sentence “Christianity is not tolerant of other religions. Our strategy is to overtake other religions …”
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