Blake Callens Profile picture
Christian. Student of the history of totalitarianism. Author of The Case Against Christian Nationalism. Asker of inconvenient questions.
Mar 12 14 tweets 6 min read
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


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Feb 2 18 tweets 7 min read
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 Image 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
Apr 19, 2023 13 tweets 7 min read
"I've never read anything by Wolfe"

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)

#ChristianNationalism ImageImage 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. Image
Apr 18, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
I know I'm an absolute nobody, but... 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