Game Over

It finally happened. One of the best known Christian Nationalist internet personalities, the untrained and self-ordained podcasting pastor Joel Webbon, made a full admission that he believes in the pseudoscience commonly known as eugenic racism. If you can sit through twenty minutes of a guy putting on a fake New England gentry accent from a Texas sound stage, as he talks about how certain ethnic groups have “genetic deficiencies” that cannot be overcome in “one generation,” here’s the full video. Otherwise, I clipped one of the smoking gun statements, which also contains the expression of several objectively evil stereotypes.

To get an understanding of how off-the-rails the “Reformed” Christian Nationalist movement is, consider that, just a few months ago, if one suggested that men like Webbon were trying to launder a philosophy he’s now openly advocating, that person would be greeted with a wave of accusations that he was anything from “uncharitable” to an “accuser of the brethren.” Now, many of those very people who rushed to calumniate the critics—especially the “respectable” reactionary Christian personalities who did events with these men—have taken on a new brand, that of bold defenders of the faith against an incursion of white-nationalist ideology. You couldn’t make it up if you tried.

It’s worth pointing out, yet again, that SBC pastor and Oklahoma state senator Dusty Deevers is still scheduled to speak at Webbon’s annual conference in less than two months, alongside other promoters of eugenics, including the headliner, Stephen Wolfe. We are the only major ecclesial body with a representative at a conference put on by an admitted eugenicist. This is especially damning, in that we’re also the only major ecclesial body with the Christian’s duty to oppose racism codified into its statement of faith. Despite this, SBC leaders, including President Clint Pressley, remain silent.

For those of us who weren’t afraid to publicly stand up to these men and their evil beliefs over the last few years, Webbon’s admission represents total ideological victory for us. Many of the men in the above picture have been frantically trying to keep the cat in the bag for quite some time, while letting little nuggets out, here and there, to appease their fan base that is largely comprised of open racists hiding behind anonymous social media accounts. Yesterday, live on camera, Webbon ripped open the bag and let the cat run all over his Texas garage made up to look like a humidor.