'Men Must Be Governed': The Christian Nationalist Worldview Laid Bare By Pastor Joel Webbon

[Tom of Temecula]

Joel Webbon is a Christian nationalist pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas and the founder of Right Response Ministries. Through his ministry, Webbon organizes events like “Blueprints for Christendom 2.0: Seven Doctrines for Ruling the World,” which took place earlier this year and featured militant Christian nationalists like Doug Wilson and Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers as speakers.

Webbon also hosts a podcast called “Theology Applied,” which he uses to promote his far-right theology, as he did during a recent episode in which he declared that the American people have become such “degenerates” that the Constitution is no longer adequate and therefore they must be governed by a Christian dictator who “just rules with an iron fist.”

Last month, Webbon delivered a sermon called “Why Many Christians Don’t Want A Christian Nation,” during which he laid out this theocratic worldview in greater detail, asserting that people are too stupid and cowardly to govern themselves and thus must ruled by a Christian leader who “comes in with a sword” and forces everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.” “The average person is a coward. They are,” Webbon declared. “And the average person is not intelligent. They’re not. And the average person is not a free thinker.”

“Men must be governed,” he continued. “They must. That is absolutely true. Men must be governed. Now, ideally, men would govern themselves … but when you don’t have a populace that is capable of self-governance—when the fruit of the Spirit that is self-control has left the building for decades and nobody seems to have it—then men must be governed. And if they will not govern themselves, then someone else needs to govern them.”

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[marybourg]

1. By the most degenerate, stupid and cowardly among them, apparently.

[SamKnause]

2. Fuck you and your theocratic bullshit.

I fucking despise religious zealots.

[dchill]

3. "Christendom." Uh, no. Fuck that.

Whatever your definition.

[._.]

4. Fascist Bastards

Fascism hiding behind the cross is still Fascism. He can shove it up his ass.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites

We have plenty of folks who want to be the Christian Ayatollah of America.

Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.

One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'.

Same same for a theocracy.

[NanaCat]

9. Like all the idiots who read Plato's Republic

And automatically think they'll be the Philosopher-Kings.

[DiverDave]

6. He's saying basic humans are sheep.

Nothing new. They (the zealots) have been saying it for 2,000 years.
That we need a shepherd.
That's why poor people vote for no taxes on wealthy people.
Because they are convinced they will be wealthy, one day.
It's all bullshit. Even he is deluded into thinking HE will be a shepherd.

Need to keep an eye on lunatics like this.

[Renew Deal]

7. What would an average man like Joel Webbon do with the non-Christians in this scenario?

And I’m not just talking about the atheists.

[ecstatic]

8. He should move to Russia

It sounds a lot like what he's wishing for.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. America was NOT founded as a christian nation

The founders signed a treaty affirming that the US was NOT founded as a christian nation

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[aocommunalpunch]

11. A rabid animal says what now?

Evidence of no god is slimy vermin like this guy walking and talking.

[keep_left]

12. We were warned many years ago about these kinds of movements, and...

...how they often become influential during times of crisis in democratic, open societies.

Erich Fromm, in Escape From Freedom, and Eric Hoffer, in The True Believer, both explained why these mass movements have appeal to various disillusioned and disenfranchised groups. The kind of rhetoric employed by Joel Webbon could have come directly out of either of Fromm or Hoffer's works.

And unfortunately, these kinds of movements are often just barely sub rosa in open societies, even during the good times. There is a famous letter by President Eisenhower to a constituent, in which Eisenhower recommended the Hoffer book. It is known as the "Biggs letter", after the name of the constituent.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218041638#post17
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017842811#post8

[GenThePerservering]

13. "The average person is a coward.

...They are,” Webbon declared. “And the average person is not intelligent. They’re not. And the average person is not a free thinker.”

Just keep underestimating the rest of us, you clown.