Damned Christians

[Fake Messiah]

Meet the Hitler-loving podcaster who's teaching young Christian men to hate - in the name of God

He’s a Hitler-loving podcaster on a mission to convince young Christian men to hate – all in the name of God.

Corey Mahler, 39, of Maryville, Tennessee, is unapologetically a racist, an antisemite, a fascist and a Christian nationalist who thinks Hitler is in Paradise and the Jews he killed are in Hell. He wants a right-wing Christian government that will deport Jews, immigrants and people of color. He does not rule out the possible need for genocide.

Mahler answered, “Our goal is to push young men to become actual Christians,” — which, in his mind, includes being racist and antisemitic.

And his influence extends even further as those young men go back to their own churches with ideas they pick up from his podcast.

“The issues that we raise then get talked about on Sunday or during the week. There are men in their Bible studies discussing those issues. There are pastors having to respond to those issues,” Mahler said.

And conservative church pastors around the United States agree that Mahler is causing trouble within their congregations.

“This isn’t just some online fight. This is about what’s coming into the church itself,” said James White, a member of the ministry team at Apologia Church in Mesa, Arizona.

Apologia pastor Luke Pierson called Mahler “an evil man.”

“This is a vile doctrine that needs to be completely obliterated out of the church – and it’s there and it’s a problem,” Pierson said.

Similarly, Chris Rosebrough, pastor of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church in Oslo, Minn., called Mahler “one of the most dangerous people on the planet.”

“He somehow has this amazing ability to make white supremacy, fascism and the racial ideology of the Nazis look like it is virtuous,” Rosebrough said.

Part of Mahler’s idea of being an actual Christian can be found in his tweet that “Jesus Christ is Lord, and Adolf Hitler is His faithful servant.”

“I don't have a problem with genocide per se, and I can't as a Christian because God commanded it in the Old Testament of the Canaanites.”

Mahler’s message is not unlike the neo-Nazis we’ve confronted on Nashville streets – or even members of the Ku Klux Klan who once operated in the backwoods of the Old South.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newsch...ame-of-god


If these pastors truly see Mahler as a problem they want to address, they should condemn Trump and hate speech, because what he is preaching is awfully close to what is coming from churches and the current mainstream Right.

[Alan V]

If these pastors truly see Mahler as a problem they want to address, they should condemn Trump and hate speech, because what he is preaching is awfully close to what is coming from churches and the current mainstream Right.

Yes, a lot of what Trump spouts is hate speech. That is a big reason the loonies are emboldened.

[Mister Agenda]

He Believes Hitler Went to Heaven — and Wants to Take Over the Lutheran Church
On Ash Wednesday, the First Lutheran Church in Knoxville called the cops on a parishioner who was attempting to attend services. Corey Mahler — a white nationalist who has sought to transform the Lutheran Church into a bastion for young fascists — was removed from church grounds for causing what his pastor called “harm and division to the body of Christ.”

The move against Mahler in Tennessee was set in motion a day earlier in St. Louis. The president of the nation’s second-largest Lutheran denomination posted a denunciation of agitators “propagating...
See full article at Rollingstone.com

[Fake Messiah]

For and by Christians: How Idaho’s influential Christian Nationalist group wants to reshape the state

In the future that the Idaho Family Policy Center envisions, every public school classroom in the state would begin the day with teachers reading from the King James Bible.

Verse by verse, over 10 years of school, children would hear their teachers recite the entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, and the repeated exhortations that Jesus Christ is God. Students who didn’t want to listen would have to bring a note from their parents.

The policy center’s attempt to make that vision a reality — a bill introduced this year in the state Legislature — failed to get traction. But the policy center’s president, Blaine Conzatti, is playing the long game. “We're going to introduce it again next year, and I am confident and optimistic in the chances of success.”

His organization has swiftly become the largest conservative policy organization in the state, having a hand in successfully pushing some of Idaho’s most controversial bills in recent years, including laws restricting access to abortion, puberty blockers and controversial library books.

The U.S. Supreme Court has considered mandatory Bible reading laws to be unconstitutional for the last six decades. But after a series of recent rulings, an emboldened movement of Christian nationalists — conservatives who want to use government to elevate their religion over other faiths — hope the constitutional walls dividing church and state are poised to come tumbling down.

The Idaho Family Policy Center is part of a national network of like-minded groups. It’s closely aligned with Doug Wilson, an incendiary Idaho pastor whose theocratic gospel has earned fame and condemnation. And now, it has allies in the White House.

The policy center’s growing influence over Idaho lawmakers alarms Liz Yates, a program manager at the Western States Center, a nonprofit that tracks extremism. Yates said the organization’s goals are ultimately “anti-democratic.”

“They are trying to install a theocracy in which the authority of government comes not from the people, but from the Bible,” Yates said. “And people who don't subscribe to that form of Christianity are the ones who are excluded."

Indeed, Conzatti stressed that he would allow only Christians to serve in public office.

https://www.investigatewest.org/investig...e-17951285

[Fake Messiah]

Denver pastor, wife indicted in $3.4 million cryptocurrency scam

Eli, who ran the online-only Victorious Grace Church, and Kaitlyn Regalado were indicted by a Denver grand jury on 40 felony charges of theft, securities fraud and racketeering for soliciting nearly $3.4 million from investors who bought into a cryptocurrency they created called INDXcoin, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday.

Eli Regalado told his parishioners that God directed him to start the cryptocurrency and a related marketplace, Kingdom Wealth Exchange, as a “wealth transfer” for God’s people, according to the indictment.

But only a fraction of that money went toward the business, investigators say. The funds were transferred directly into the couple’s bank and Venmo accounts, and least $1.3 million went to personal expenses, including plane tickets, car payments and a home renovation Eli Regalado said “the Lord” told them to do.

In a since-deleted video posted in January 2024, Eli Regalado admitted he and his wife pocketed the money but insisted “God is not done with this project” and asked his parishioners to stand by the couple.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/07/22/de...-indxcoin/



But that's how you run the church. When that mother Theresa raised $75 million for the poor but the Vatican took all the money for themselves, no one persecuted them. Not to mention the church of Scientology or the church of LDS.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Denver pastor, wife indicted in $3.4 million cryptocurrency scam

Eli, who ran the online-only Victorious Grace Church, and Kaitlyn Regalado were indicted by a Denver grand jury on 40 felony charges of theft, securities fraud and racketeering for soliciting nearly $3.4 million from investors who bought into a cryptocurrency they created called INDXcoin, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday.

Eli Regalado told his parishioners that God directed him to start the cryptocurrency and a related marketplace, Kingdom Wealth Exchange, as a “wealth transfer” for God’s people, according to the indictment.

But only a fraction of that money went toward the business, investigators say. The funds were transferred directly into the couple’s bank and Venmo accounts, and least $1.3 million went to personal expenses, including plane tickets, car payments and a home renovation Eli Regalado said “the Lord” told them to do.

In a since-deleted video posted in January 2024, Eli Regalado admitted he and his wife pocketed the money but insisted “God is not done with this project” and asked his parishioners to stand by the couple.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/07/22/de...-indxcoin/



But that's how you run the church. When that mother Theresa raised $75 million for the poor but the Vatican took all the money for themselves, no one persecuted them. Not to mention the church of Scientology or the church of LDS.

Mother Teresa didn’t raise money for the poor. She raised money for the Vatican and made no bones about it.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

A computer, a radio, a drone and a shotgun’: how missionaries are reaching out to Brazil’s isolated peoples

Despite laws protecting uncontacted communities, evangelical Christian missions employ many methods to spread their message, including on secret audio devices left in the forest.

“I am sure that God is a god of love; therefore, if he is a god of love, he will take me to heaven when I die, so that does not worry me. I would like to remind you of something, since you have forgotten one of the most important aspects of life – death – and the fact of being acceptable in the eyes of God. Let me explain it,” is one of the messages the device carries.

Similar devices, called the Messenger, have been used to spread religious messages, despite proselytising being prohibited among uncontacted and recently contacted peoples, according to Brazilian law. Messenger devices are distributed by the US Baptist organisation In Touch Ministries, based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Groups such as the New Tribes Mission and Youth With A Mission (YWAM) have long been active in the region, some employing covert methods such as secret audio devices and unauthorised visits to spread their faith. Recent incidents include an unauthorised missionary interacting with local people and building a church near an isolated Indigenous group along the Maia creek.

Missionary activity now threatens 13 of the 29 isolated peoples that Brazil officially recognises as definitively confirmed, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.

Marcos Pepe Mayuruna was converted and “trained” to be a pastor in Atalaia do Norte by US religious leaders. He says YWAM has a strong presence in the region.

Marubo says the cultural impact of white people’s beliefs impoverishes the reality of Indigenous peoples. “I fear that in future, our peoples will be like a book with a cover that’s missing its contents,” she says.

Mayá, the Korubo leader who now has the In Touch Messenger audio bible, was more blunt. “I don’t want missionaries to come to our village. If they do, we will club them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/global-devel...ed-peoples

[Fake Messiah]

But they're just teaching us morality.

In diverse Central Park, community concerned U.S. Christian musician's concert could sow division

Sean Feucht has advertised a concert in Winnipeg's Central Park on Aug. 20. The event is part of a Canada-U.S. tour he has described as the country's "hour of awakening" and an opportunity to worship Jesus.

Crown agencies and cities overseeing six public venues in Canada's East Coast, Quebec and Ontario denied or revoked permits granted to Feucht to host events that were part of his tour this week — all citing public safety concerns among their reasoning.

Feucht has been affiliated with the MAGA movement and spoken publicly on his platforms against the LGBTQ+ community as well as against abortion rights. He was also a strong advocate against the closure of places of worship during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Charlie Eau, the executive director of Trans Manitoba, is also concerned about the kind of message Feucht could share at Central Park as he has been vocally opposed to the 2SLGBTQ+ community, gender expression and immigration before.

"This person's views are directly harmful to and make vulnerable the very people that live in the Central Park neighbourhood," they said.

"It needs to be stopped."

The musician said his group "will not cower in the face of religious persecution."

"Here's the hard truth: If I had shown up with purple hair and a dress, claiming to be a woman, the government wouldn't have said a thing," Feucht's statement said.

"But to publicly profess deeply held Christian beliefs is to be labeled an extremist and to have free worship events classified as 'public safety risks.'"

Private venues have since opened their doors for Feucht to host his events, including a church in Montreal where he took the stage on Friday and began singing while protesters gathered outside.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/...-1.7595048

[Fake Messiah]

Do Christian K-12 Schools Have a Race Problem?

A viral video of a white student at a Fresno, Calif. Christian high school casually dropping an N-bomb is the latest in a spate of racist incidents at faith-based schools, putting a spotlight on their origins.

Mason, a Fresno Christian senior at the time who has since graduated, looks into the camera, an exasperated, see-what-I-have-to-put-up-with expression on his face. That incident, along with others the teenager surreptitiously caught on camera — including another student throwing up a Nazi salute, then pretending to whip him — led Mason’s father to accuse the school of allowing racism to fester on campus.

For parents dissatisfied with local public schools, private, faith-based schools can be an option for their child to receive a quality education anchored in Christian values. But a spate of high-profile incidents points to an undercurrent of racial bias that harms Black students and undermines schools’ religious mission.

“You’re setting the team back” because people see how Christians treat a Black student — “your own people at your own school.” J. Mason told the local NBC affiliate last week.

After receiving inadequate follow-up from school leadership, J. Mason went public with the story. A video of the abuse against Jeremiah has since gone viral.

The incident at Fresno Christian is the latest in a series of racial harassment allegations involving private Christian schools in recent years.

In July, a Black Los Angeles-area mother filed a lawsuit on behalf of her son, D.W., who endured years of racist bullying at his Cerritos Christian school — including being called a “monkey” and “snitch.”

Last fall, a Black student filed suit against his prestigious private Christian academy in Westlake Village, also in suburban Los Angeles. The student alleged years of racial harassment from peers, including the use of the N‑word, a mock slave auction in the cafeteria, threats of lynching, and even a whipping sound app used to intimidate him. The lawsuit claims staff witnessed some incidents but failed to intervene effectively.

And in Kentucky in 2023, a federal lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Covington alleged a Black eighth grader at St. Joseph Catholic School was harassed with racial slurs by a teacher, including the use of the N-word during a lesson. The teacher then allegedly retaliated against the girl for reporting the behavior, and she was denied Communion during Mass.

These incidents raise broader questions about the current climate for Black students in Christian schools — and whether the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies is emboldening overt acts of racism.

https://wordinblack.com/2025/07/do-white...e-problem/

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Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Preps for More European Court Battles

Defense fund will support Christians suing over freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) is calling it the “war chest.”

To date, Christians have won a remarkable series of legal victories in Europe. Graham triumphed in his lawsuits. Activists upset by his past comments on LGBTQ people (“the enemy”) and Islam (“an evil and very wicked religion”) successfully pressured stadiums, conference halls, and theaters to cancel BGEA events, despite signed contracts. The seaside city of Blackpool, England, pulled ads from city buses, citing community complaints and “heightened tension.” Then in 2021, British courts said that was religious discrimination and not allowed under the UK Human Rights Act or the European Convention on Human Rights.

Minister Olaf Latzel triumphed in Germany in 2022, when a court ruled that his comments about homosexuality and LGBTQ people in a church marriage seminar were “strange” and “more than alienating” but not hate speech. He was acquitted on all charges.

A conservative politician and a church leader won in Finland the same year, when a court ruled that the things they said about homosexuality were “offensive, but not hate speech.” The judges found that parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen and Juhana Pohjola, a bishop with the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, were not trying to incite hatred but attempting to explain their views of Scripture.

JD Vance warned about Europe’s “backslide away from conscience rights” and “retreat … from some of its most fundamental values.”

Political scientist Andrea Hatcher, whose research focuses on evangelicals in the UK, said the Christian right doesn’t have the numbers to support a political movement in Europe. Electoral victories, in most places, would be impossible. Court battles, however, can be one way of broadening support.

“Framing their efforts … as ‘free speech’ is a strategic appeal to a wider, secular audience,” Hatcher said. And each lawsuit leads to more connections with more sympathizers and “well-funded global Christian nationalists.”

“We know that true hope can only be found in Jesus Christ,” Graham said when the fund was first announced in 2024, “so we need to support one another in getting the good news of Jesus Christ out, whatever it takes.”

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/0...war-chest/

[Rizen]

The fact that there's a thread called "Damned Christians" makes me happy.

There's a song called "better is one day". Where they're singing:
"How lovely is Your dwelling place, Oh Lord Almighty
My soul longs and even faints for You
For here my heart is satisfied, within Your presence
I sing beneath the shadow of Your wings
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere"

Basically they're say one day in the grace of god is better than thousands elsewhere. Sarah Brightman does a fantastic job with it but I can't get over the words. That kind of devotion is super creepy to me. Think of all the things people have done in the name of god. An all powerful "get out of hell free" ticket can get people to do just about anything.