Let's talk the out-in-the-open kinist (white nationalist) CREC church in Pella, IA, Christ the Redeemer, pastored by Michael Shover. I have so much evidence that I have to be highly selective here. 🧵 1/11
In the ☝️ photo, you have Shover, Jesse Van Der Molen, Darrell Dow, and Thomas Achord, among others. The account belongs to Van Der Molen, who regularly posts pictures of himself on it. It's well known among those in the CREC that the account is his, despite the "Tom" handle. 2/11
Thomas Achord (1st on right) was the podcast co-host of Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust), who had an anonymous white nationalist account (@TuliusAadland). Darrell Dow (4th on left) was his co-author on the kinist book, Who is My Neighbor?: An Anthology in Natural Relations. 3/11
Here's a Facebook message of Dow promoting literal "racism". 4/11
Van Der Molen (1st on left) is quite prolific in his antisemitism, which is more than evident on his account, but here's a post using the Nazi "Blut und Boded" slogan from yesterday: 5/11
Here's a Facebook message of him promoting white nationalist kinism. 8/11
Shane Anderson (@TheDailyGenevan), a well known Twitter kinist, also appears to be a member of the church. Here's an Instagram post of him talking about a construction job he did with Achord and him saying he's moved to Pella. 9/11
Here's Van Der Molen, tagging Shover in a pic from when their group went to an event with @aaron_renn, @BonifaceOption and @thisisfoster. Note "county dominion." 10/11
My multiple sources in the CREC say that this is a wide-open secret and that members even talk about "that one church" openly. This church is in good standing in the denomination, @uribrito. I have much, much more. 11/11
@uribrito Addendum 1: Here's a Gab post with Anderson naming Shover as his pastor.
Addendum 2: To bring this full circle to the post from a few days ago, here's @RettCopple talking with Van Der Molen about a kinist dustup over comments that happened in a Fight Laugh Feast chat where someone had posted something from Andrew Torba (according to my source).
@RettCopple Addendum 3: Some more content from Dow and Shover.
@RettCopple Addendum 4: Van Der Molen's response, stating, among other things, that @douglaswils and I are "[attacking] white people for loving their family," seeming to claim that inter-ethnic marriage is detrimental to the offspring's health, and that he'll "do [his] duty to [his] kin."
@RettCopple @douglaswils Addendum 5: Jesse Van Der Molen defending Corey Mahler's call to re-enslave black people. But it's just about loving your kin, right?
@RettCopple @douglaswils Addendum 6: Michael Shover, on his short lived Twitter account, arguing that the United States entered WWII "at the behest of the Jews calling for the total eradication of Germany."
Addendum 7: Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust) wrote about the Van Der Molen porch in The Case Against Christian Nationalism.
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Let's do this. The most notable references I caught in the deliberately Nazi, White Boy Summer video, removing any excuse that these people didn't know exactly what they were sharing. 🧵
A man watches people in BDSM gear at a pride parade and is made to look like he's thinking of footage of Wehrmacht soldiers.
A bust of Stonewall Jackson with who I believe is @totusjustice, the white-nationalist founder of @SacraPress. He and his company recently made waves for publishing the Nazi book Positive Christianity in the Third Reich.
Let's take a look at who's involved in @BaptistLeaders, the new lobbying group headed by @William_E_Wolfe that's trying to shape the future of the SBC, specifically those men's ties (or that of their associates) to white nationalism and fascism. 🧵 1/12 centerforbaptistleadership.org
The public financier, @AmReformer, is a journal that has published multiple articles along these lines, from a defense of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, to claiming deporting the ethnic other is true hospitality, to direct references of white nationalists (even by their EIC). 2/12
The Executive Director of AmRef kicked up a storm last year when he tweeted, "Basically, America is going to need a Protestant Franco." Francisco Franco sent his political enemies to concentration camps and kidnapped their children. He extra-judicially executed ~300k people. 3/12
Yes, that's the problem. This tweet is plain as day in the context of his other writings. His theory states that groups of people born of different "climate" are "more beautiful and all ways better disposed." (p 67)
This tweet is part of the same idea. His theory takes this idea to the concept of a "peculiar love for the people of own race and country". He attempts to obfuscate "ethnicity" to be about culture, but connects it to the "blood ties in ethno-genesis". It's all in the book, folks.
Chapter 3 of the book covers most of these things. By the end I am certain that most will conclude that Wolfe's theory is distinctly ethno-nationalist.
My rebuttal of your article will include things like your explicit use of "no enemies to the right" to dismiss race hatred and your "glowing" review of el Caudillo.
I ask for patience as I finish rebutting Wolfe's book. I promise I will give you an intellectually honest rebuttal
Cursory read and this stood out. Interested in your reasoning, as it will help my rebuttal. Is this not projection/hypocrisy, since your entire phrase is based on only attacking one side? I think a conservative Christian faces far more social backlash attacking the right nowadays