Would you like a dose of extra-right-wing Christian nationalism with your morning coffee? Well, boy do I have the guy for you. He’s pastor Joel Webbon, and he’s absolutely full of God, country, and something else that remains unprintable so as not to offend Facebook.
All he really wants to do is ruin the lives of millions of Americans, and he wants one eensy-weensy tweak to the Constitution, he says in his podcast Vision for America.
“i love the constitution,” webbon said. “i absolutely love it. if there was anything that i would to do the constitution at all—if revival swept through the land, or we got an American Caesar and he was a Christian … one of the first things that i would advocate for is not even changing the constitution, but simply adopting to the constitution a preamble of the Apostles Creed.”
“other than that, i love the constitution,” he concluded.
This leads me to think this dude hasn’t read the Constitution because it seems the Constitution has something to say about religion. What’s that called? Oh yeah, separation of Church and State. While that exact phrase isn’t mentioned in the Constitution, it is enshrined in the First Amendment, Freedom Forum reports.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” Freedom Forum writes, citing the Constitution. “known as the establishment clause, the opening lines of the of the first amendment prohibit the government from creating an official religion or favoring one religion (or nonreligion) over another.”
“the separation of church and state enables all americans to practice their deeply held beliefs in private and in public.”
Verily, I say unto thee that Webbon is a moron. But a dangerous moron. He’s insisting that nations must be governed by men who use their power to ensure that “we will serve the Lord, whether you like it or not.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly care about this last part. I don’t like this next part and I don’t think you will either.
“we are going to behave as a christian people,” Webbon proclaimed. “And what does that mean? it means we’re going to ban pornography. it means we’re going to ban no-fault divorce (glad I escaped before this happens). it means we are going to absolutely, utterly abolish abortion, including in vitro, including the hormonal birth control pill, every single one of its forms; not just the planned parenthood clinic in texas, but we’re going to go down to the local cvs and we’re going to start knocking those pills off the shelf. no more human sacrifice. So, a civil magistrates can do that. he can and should do that.”
Webbon wrapped things up by completely agreeing with his co-host, who insisted that it is preferable to see the U.S. become a Christian nation no matter what form of government is installed to achieve this result rather than to allow it to remain a republic.
“i’d rather have a christian monarchy than our current state of affairs,” webbon responded..
So how do you like them apples? Does this give you the warm fuzzies? Webbon makes Marjorie Taylor Greene seem sane by comparison.
Well, Right Wing Watch doesn’t like this either.
Earlier this month, the outlet posted clips of Webbon laying out his Christian nationalist nightmare for America and brought up the aforementioned Caesar-like dictator who “rules with an iron fist” and forces everyone to at the very least “pretend to be Christian.”
Webbon, responding to Right Wing Watch’s post, dedicated an entire episode of his podcast asserting that his call for dictatorship was being misinterpreted because, he insisted, he was speaking descriptively (um, explaining what could happen). No, no he wasn’t talking prescriptively (explaining what should happen).
But Right Wing Watch is dubious about this defense, “especially given Webbon’s explicit declaration that ‘men must be governed’ and ‘you need a Caesar-type’ dictator to do that governing could certainly be interpreted as a prescriptive statement.'”
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon says Americans are "degenerates" and therefore the Constitution doesn't work anymore, so this nation needs a Caesar-like dictator who "Constitution be dammed, just rules with an iron fist." pic.twitter.com/2sDev7ZFy1
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 8, 2024
But Webbon is also ignorant of history as well as the Constitution. Caesar would have laughed him right out of the room because he and his family believed they were divinely connected to Venus and Mars. Webbon perhaps doesn’t understand that whole Ides of March thing. Where most of us know that Caesar was assassinated.
Here’s more of this cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs fool in his podcast below. Hope it doesn’t turn your coffee to acid in your stomach.
Along with a strongman like Caesar, Webbon mentions a strong leader “like Cromwell.” Oh, really…which one? Thomas Cromwell who was so strong his best friend, Henry VIII, executed him and put his head on a spike in 1540? Or Oliver Cromwell who was so strong he got King Charles I executed and then had the army make him Lord Protector (king) until his death in 1658? Webbon has no idea but, as an American idealist, I don’t like either scenario. BTW, Megan, a new documentary is out on some streaming services and speaks to your point: “Bad Faith–Christian Nationalism’s Unholy War On Democracy” the trailer is on YouTube
I’m somewhat of a historian and write on history often. Caesar clearly would laugh this idiot out of the room. He doesn’t seem to know about the Ides of March. And I am the 12th cousin, twice removed of Col. Ethan Allen who took over Fort Ticonderoga during the Revolutionary War. I have other relatives as well who fought during that time and I’m qualified to be a Daughter of The American Revolution but they are I get offended because Ethan Allen was captured at one point and kept in a dank British prison where he was nearly hung. So these people can kiss my a$$.