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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    Gotta love these followers of Jesus doing and saying exactly all the things Jesus said to never do… Not that it matters, all religions are imaginary, but leave it up to Christians to always posture about how pious they are while going 100% against their own rules and just act like giant narcissistic assholes.

    I hate Christians

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      13 hours ago

      It’s the same way the conservatives, including and often most especially the True Conservatives ™, always blather on about things like freedom, rights, the Constitution, America, etc., as if they are the ones that own those things wholesale.

      When they never meant any of that shit, ever. They don’t give a flying fuck about the Constitution any more than they do about “the” bible.

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      17 hours ago

      Christianity is a religion fundamentally about escaping consequences for your actions. Instead of having to face consequences, all you have to do is believe Jesus paid the consequences for you.