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Owen Morgan

Deconstructing high control religions and political movements Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  1. 15h ago

    Joel Webbon: "I'm not saying I'm pro Hitler, but..."

    Joel Webb's neo-Nazi conference books Alex Jones while a TikToker claims the energy sensors in her hands move foil by telekinesis. Her telekinesis claim falls apart once you account for a tilted table, breath escaping behind a mask, hidden heat from a blow dryer and simple TikTok editing, and Matt Dillahunty's openly performed magic shows where an honest trick ends and a lie begins. Ray Comfort's sermon calls "God has a wonderful plan for your life" a false gospel, rejects altar calls and the sinner's prayer, and tells preachers to make sinners tremble before judgment and hell. That fear pitch arrives while evangelical churches keep losing members: Greg Locke and Paula White have each seen attendance drop from about three thousand to three hundred. Comfort's jab at blaspheming politicians seems aimed squarely at Donald Trump. Joel Webb's lineup includes panels on Christian nationalism, patriarchy, race realism and Jewish supremacy, with Alex Jones, J. P. Sears and James Fishback as speakers. The Christian nationalist pastor brags about his Aryan wife and children, and Webb's appearance on the Stu Peters show, where Peters questions whether Hitler was evil, runs straight into the Holocaust records. Colorado's win closes the episode. After lobbying by American Atheists and its Colorado Secular Advocacy Team, the Colorado Department of Corrections will no longer force parolees into 12-step programs. Parolees will be referred to Smart Recovery, sober housing providers must disclose any faith-based requirements, and telehealth will be offered where no local group exists. Kathy Hochul vetoed a similar reform in New York. Subscribe, leave a review and share this episode. 0:00 - The TikToker's telekinesis claim, debunked as breath, heat and TikTok editing 8:30 - Ray Comfort's call to make sinners tremble with fear of hell, rebutted 28:53 - Joel Webb's neo-Nazi conference lineup and his appearance on Stu Peters' show 43:59 - Colorado ends mandatory religious 12-step programs for parolees after American Atheists lobbying 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  2. 4d ago

    Atheists just want to sin: Greg Locke's laziest argument, answered

    Kent Christmas's new Cyrus prophecy drops Trump, while Greg Locke claims he stood on the real Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. On the Elijah List, Kent Christmas, once a loud backer of Trump's Cyrus Anointing, now promises a next president without the baggage, and that turn connects to churches like Greg Locke's losing members. Johnny Enlow still insists Trump is Cyrus, and one pastor lays hands on a cardboard Trump cutout. Christmas's own prophecies from 2021 and 2022, including emptied cancer wards and a great victory by year's end, fall apart against the record. Abdul El-Sayed's heckler Tommy demands he disavow the Muslim Brotherhood, then admits he supports religious laws. El-Sayed answers with his oath to the Constitution, everyone's right to pray or not to pray at all, and the example of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy's refusal to be a Catholic president. Mike Rogers's claim that El-Sayed has Muslim Brotherhood ties fails the same test. Kandiss Taylor refused to concede to Brian Kemp in 2022 after taking about four percent of the vote, with a Taylor Governor watermark on her video and a call to pray for guilt. Her fire alarms story swaps smoke detectors for guardian angels, and her claim that parenthood needs normalizing runs into polling showing most Americans over forty have children. Locke says an Islamic regime opened his Noah's Ark to scientists for the first time, but the site is a natural mountain formation that has been studied for seventy-five years. Subscribe and leave a review so the next Cyrus prophecy gets checked too. 0:00 - Kent Christmas turns on Trump and predicts a new Cyrus president without the baggage 16:27 - Abdul El-Sayed's heckler Tommy demands a Muslim Brotherhood disavowal, then backs religious laws 37:30 - Kandiss Taylor refuses to concede to Brian Kemp and claims motherhood needs normalizing 46:58 - Greg Locke claims he visited the real Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, rebutted 57:14 - Greg Locke mocked as a millionaire posing as an everyman, then the outro 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  3. Oct 25

    Evangelical moms teaching toddlers to chant about destroying hell

    Failed prophecies from Robin Bullock and Kat Kerr promised Donald Trump a secret military inauguration on March 4, 2021. Before January 6th, Greg Locke insisted Trump would stay president, then denied that God ever told him so. Lance Wallnau's gold prophecy keeps pushing a gold link even after gold fell 23 percent and silver 48 percent. Lauren Witzke told Alex Jones in July 2021 that the Equality Act would turn scripture into hate speech and get pastors arrested, and none of it ever happened. Kat Kerr's QAnon and sovereign citizen theory claims the United States became a corporation after 1865, which would void every constitutional amendment since and let Trump be reinstated. Robin Bullock's built-in excuse that God won't force Trump back into the White House later turns into a claim that the Biden administration is a fake regime whose only purpose is to block the prophecy. Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge's claim that IQ is highly heritable, and his refusal to let his daughter marry a black man, run into the Flynn effect, research showing schooling raises IQ, adoption studies, Dickens and Flynn's finding that the gap narrowed, and the Nuremberg IQ scores of Julius Streicher. A National Conservatism speaker's call to board the Vance train for JD Vance echoes the National Socialists, and Hitler's Nuremberg laws borrowed from American Jim Crow laws, as The American Model documents. A TikTok mother's blood of Jesus prayer for her toddlers raises the question of whether minors should be allowed to make lifelong commitments like Jehovah's Witness baptism. Subscribe, leave a review and check the website for more episodes. 0:00 - Greg Locke's failed Trump 2020 prophecy and Lance Wallnau's gold price prophecy 7:14 - Lauren Witzke's false claim that Biden would arrest pastors, then Kat Kerr and QAnon's reinstatement theory 11:18 - Robin Bullock's March 4 Trump inauguration prophecy and his excuse when it failed 22:07 - Dale Partridge's IQ case against interracial marriage, debunked, and National Conservatism backing JD Vance 40:55 - A mother on TikTok leads her young children in a "covered by the blood of Jesus" prayer 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  4. Oct 21

    "We drank the Kool-Aid and it's orange": Shane Vaughn's Trump cult

    Gabe Poirot's 18 Days in Heaven sells a manly, lion-like Jesus on Fox News, and Shane Vaughn's AI-written book makes Cherokees Israelites. Poirot tells Kayleigh McEnany that an 18-day coma after a helmetless skateboard crash brought him to a Jesus who rejects anything soft or tolerant. His Harrison House book follows the path that Colton Burpo's Heaven Is for Real and Alex Malarkey's retracted The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven already paved. The famous shoe on the hospital roof, the favorite proof for near-death experiences, collapses once anyone asks who verified it. Shane Vaughn's The American Indian: Our Brethren of the House of Israel leans on a Cherokee story from George E. Foster's 1899 Story of the Cherokee Bible. That tale traces back to missionary Daniel Sabin Buttrick, whose Lost Tribes obsession shaped his notes, and Cherokee writer W. A. Duncan challenged it in the Cherokee Advocate. Vaughn's clips go further. In them George Washington dedicated America to God where the Twin Towers stood, every signer of the Declaration descends from Israel, and the northern tribes crossed the Caucasus into Britain and then America. Each claim falls apart against the record, and so do Vaughn's doctorate, his youngest-evangelist boast that Marjoe Gortner beat by years, and his silence about his prison term for insurance fraud. Robin Bullock's livestream then brands atheist scientists thieves and robbers and reads a war between Lucifer and the Archangel into Jeremiah 4, a chapter about Babylon's invasion of Judah. His idea is old gap theory, which Thomas Chalmers introduced in 1814 and the Scofield Reference Bible later spread. Subscribe, leave a review and check the website for more. 0:00 - Gabe Poirot's "18 Days in Heaven" manly Jesus claim on Fox News, debunked 11:58 - Shane Vaughn's AI-written "The American Indian" book and lost tribes of Israel claims, debunked 28:41 - Robin Bullock's sermon on atheist scientists and Lucifer's war in Genesis, debunked as gap theory 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  5. Oct 17

    Does silver solution cure COVID? Jim Bakker's 2020 claim, checked

    Televangelist Jim Bakker's silver solution COVID cure and apocalypse food buckets anchor a blunt obituary of the PTL scammer who just died. A Fox News obituary covers PTL, Heritage USA and the Jessica Hahn scandal, and the court record fills in the rest: Bakker's wire fraud conviction drew a 45-year sentence that shrank to eight, and he walked out on parole after about five years. Marjoe Gortner's death gets the tribute Bakker never earned. Gortner's documentary exposed the trade from inside, from sweat-activated forehead ink to staged healings to Haiti appeals that raised $350,000 a month while only a few thousand reached Haiti. Shane Vaughn's 2022 broadcasts come back next. He brands BLM demons and Nephilim and calls Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson a jungle monkey spouting monkey sense. Then he reads an apology that a Joy-Ann Reid clip, apparently from the same episode, undoes with a racist slur. Gene Bailey's eulogy for his friend Jim Bakker insists the man admitted his mistakes and served his time. The sentencing numbers, the food buckets, the Bible pitches and Bakker's February 2020 silver solution claim, which brought regulators' fines and refunds, all contradict Bailey. Hank Kunneman's Captain Zepto closes the episode. Kunneman tells Christy Hare that God gave him this Trump-haired space hero, who serves King Elion, while he was blow-drying his hair. The "digital download" ships as a DVD, and the interview ends with an appeal for cash. Subscribe, leave a review and check the website for more episodes holding televangelist grifters to the record. 0:00 - Jim Bakker and Marjoe Gortner die: a scamming televangelist and the ex-preacher who exposed the trade 37:58 - Shane Vaughn's racist attacks on BLM and Ketanji Brown Jackson, and his apology rejected 48:33 - Gene Bailey's tribute to Jim Bakker, rebutted with food buckets and the silver COVID cure 59:09 - Hank Kunneman's Captain Zepto, a Trump-haired cartoon hero he says came from God 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  6. Oct 14

    Greg Locke's church fell from 3,000 to 300. He pretends he's glad

    Jehovah's Witnesses scrub blood transfusions from their research guide but keep the article ordering members to shun disfellowshipped family. That article still says love for Jehovah must be stronger than love for a disfellowshipped relative, even though the organization told Norway's courts it does not shun family members so it could keep its state funding. The convention videos they pulled from JW.org show a daughter ignoring her disfellowshipped mother's calls and calling herself a spiritual orphan, the same silence that took away a best friend named Sean. Kid Rock's new Christian song "Jesus Is King" lifts its melody straight from Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler," and the music video adds ghost effects, a baptism that turns beer into water and a Tupac shirt on a Donald Trump supporter. His old lyrics about the Olsen twins, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton sit badly next to all that talk of forgiveness. Greg Locke's Noah's Ark in Turkey fails every test. Answers in Genesis geologist Andrew Snelling reported modern carbon dates on earlier samples, the drogue stones turn out to be local andesite with crosses added by Armenian Christians, and the mountain seashells come from seafloor limestone that tectonic plates pushed up. Locke's Deliverance Handbook blames demons for autism, cancer and bipolar disorder, and his own post admits the church shrank from three thousand to about three hundred. Authoritarian control, hidden finances and an FBI raid over a house bought with church funds explain that drop better than any remnant prophecy. Subscribe, leave a review and say whether you think Greg Locke believes a word of it. 0:00 - Jehovah's Witnesses research guide drops blood transfusions but keeps family shunning despite Norway ruling 12:29 - Kid Rock's Christian song "Jesus Is King" accused of ripping off Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" 23:55 - Greg Locke's Noah's Ark claims in Turkey debunked, and his shrinking "remnant" church 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  7. Oct 11

    Did Doug Wilson really defend slavery? The ten worst claims in his book

    Doug Wilson's Southern Slavery calls slavery mutually harmonious, and his Fight Laugh Feast conference just lost its Sapphire bookings. The episode counts down the ten worst claims in that 1996 book, from whipping compared to spanking to a chapter titled Unexpected Blessings that recasts the Middle Passage as a rescue. Hemant Mehta's article then follows the backlash in Franklin, Tennessee. Artist Allison Fullerton pulls her exhibit, and Sapphire co-owner Kendall Morales pledges the booking money to World Central Kitchen. Conference CEO Gabriel Wrench cancels both luncheons and blames Morales. Each claim in his press statement about abortion, immigrant voters and the party of slavery falls apart against the record. Germany's Fragebogen questionnaire shows how public shame drove ex-Nazis into hiding after the war. The paradox of intolerance exposes Wilson's group for demanding a tolerance it would deny everyone else. JW Broadcasting's AI misinformation warning tells Jehovah's Witnesses to trust only jw.org, and that line buries the failed prophecies for 1914, 1925 and 1975, the Beth Sarim mansion, the Golden Age's anti-vaccine articles and the Watchtower's secret United Nations membership. Hank Kunneman asks God to shine over every voting booth and drown every liberal. Lorenzo Sewell declares that politicians must take orders from the church, and Mike Johnson celebrates unified government. Joel Webbin brags about breeding Aryan children, defends Kanye West's Hitler remarks and agrees with talk of Jewish subversion. Subscribe, leave a review and share this Christian nationalism breakdown with anyone who still calls it fringe. 0:00 - Doug Wilson's Fight Laugh Feast conference loses its Sapphire bookings in Franklin, Tennessee 25:44 - Denazification's Fragebogen, public shame and the paradox of intolerance, aimed at Doug Wilson 32:17 - JW Broadcasting's AI misinformation warning as cover for the Watchtower's buried failed prophecies 50:00 - Hank Kunneman prays for God to drown liberals; Lorenzo Sewell says politicians must obey the church 58:38 - Joel Webbin brags about breeding "Aryan" children and agrees about "Jewish subversion" 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

  8. Sep 29

    How prosperity preachers turn desperation into a donation

    Paula White's $1,000 Passover offer promises seven supernatural blessings and a crystal cross while Benny Hinn's screeners turned away a disabled child. The tithe pitch asks for the first tenth of your gross income and credits 30 million pounds of food and a village in Israel to the donors, and the broadcast carrying it runs on RT. Benny Hinn's crusade intercepted Janice Brulotte and her eight-year-old daughter Grace, who could not walk because of a severe neuromuscular disorder, and sent them to their seats without so much as a prayer. Hank Kunneman waves his father's old gas station hat and credits God with falling gas prices, then cites a Flashpoint broadcast that supposedly prophesied Venezuela's oil being freed, which reads less like prophecy than a plan to loot a country. Kunneman also tells a crowd that a robed, bearded figure walked past him onstage on a Friday night, and names it Jesus Christ. Bill Mitchell's claim of absolute proof that internet panel polls oversample young voters collapses the moment anyone opens the RealClearPolitics aggregation of the Paxton-Talarico Texas Senate race, where Trafalgar Group, Emerson College Polling, Texas A&M, Siena College and Telemundo each publish their methodology one click away. His 5.1 GDP and lowest-crime-since-the-50s numbers meet the actual figures, his AI doomsday claims meet a software engineer who knows what the containment breaks at Meta, Anthropic and ChatGPT really were, and a Google News search for youth pastor answers the atheist panic on its own. Subscribe and leave a review. 0:00 - Paula White's tithe pitch, $1,000 Passover blessings, and microphone exorcisms 6:51 - Benny Hinn's screeners turn away Janice and Grace Brulotte, plus Paula White's marriages 10:57 - Hank Kunneman's gas price prophecy, Venezuela's oil, and Jesus appearing onstage 18:54 - Googling "youth pastor" versus "atheist" in the news, and Haley First's detrans conversion story 23:52 - Bill Mitchell says God's country guarantees Trump's win and calls his life redemption 35:02 - Bill Mitchell denies systemic racism, and the box-and-fence image explaining equity 37:30 - Bill Mitchell's "absolute proof" poll oversampling theory, and how polling averages actually work 39:59 - The jelly bean averaging principle and the Paxton-Talarico Texas Senate polling averages 42:52 - Bill Mitchell's "5.1 GDP, lowest crime since the 50s" economy claims, fact-checked 45:09 - Bill Mitchell predicts a 55-seat Senate blowout and warns of $7 gas under Democrats 49:05 - Bill Mitchell's AI doomsday claims versus a software engineer's take on containment breaks 🔥 Support the Show: Become a Patreon Member: https://owenmorgan.com/patreon Read my books: 📖 God's People: Christian Nationalism in the Third Reich https://owenmorgan.com/godspeople 📖 Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses: https://owenmorgan.com/ujw 🎥 Watch on YouTube: Telltale: https://www.youtube.com/@owenmorgantelltale Telltale Fireside Chat: https://www.youtube.com/@owenfiresidechat Telltale Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/@owenunfiltered Pixel Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/@owenpixeldreams Twitch: https://owenmorgan.com/twitch Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/owen-morgan-s-fireside-chat--6201320/support.

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