Yesterday I received this letter from Josh Abbotoy, executive director of American Reformer and managing director of New Founding, demanding that I retract and delete a tweet I posted last week re: American Reformer.
I am retracting that claim and have deleted the tweet.
My new claim is that an organization called New Founding led by Nate Fischer and Josh Abbotoy and located at the same address as American Reformer in Dallas is working with a Nazi who also publishes pornography.
So my error was claiming that American Reformer partnered with a Nazi.
The more correct claim is that another org with broadly similar leadership and listed at the same address called New Founding is partnering with a Nazi, as Fischer himself announced last week.
To review: Josh Abbotoy is demanding that I delete and retract my tweet alleging that an organization called American Reformer led by Nate Fischer and Josh Abbotoy and located in Dallas is working with a Nazi.
Thank you for this, Josh.
I also should apologize: My tweets from Saturday toward you were rude & unkind. They were also hypocritical, as I did the very sort of QTing I have at other times condemned. So: I am sorry and am asking your forgiveness.
I want to be a fair person. While I do think this Salon article illustrates why winsome third-way ministry that tries to win the left to Christ by being nicer is a foolish strategy, I hadn't actually read
@jake_meador
's Atlantic piece that the Salon article was responding to when
In another post, he claims there are "zog chemicals" in shampoo.
"zog" refers to "zionist occupational government" and is a common anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Now let's talk about Man's World.
In its first issue, there are multiple pages of pornography. So in addition to being a Nazi, he is also a pornographer.
(I will not be linking to the issue or saying what pages the porn is on.)
Who is Raw Egg Nationalist? REN is a social media influencer, writer, and editor. He publishes a magazine called Man's World and also is a published author with Antelope Hill Publishing.
He also sells "Blood, Soil, and Grass-fed beef."
"Blood and soil" was a common Nazi slogan that was also chanted by protestors at the Unite the Right protestors in Charlottesville, VA.
Issue 1 also includes multiple ads for Bronze Age Pervert's podcast Caribbean Rhythms. You can get a good rundown on BAP from the recent Atlantic story:
Additionally, issue 11 features promotional content for Arktos, a new right publishing house founded by a neo-Nazi skinhead from Sweden and former business partner with Richard Spencer, the organizer of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
Issue 2 includes an essay from BAP as well as a defense of fascism by mid-century French author Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, a French fascist and Nazi collaborator during World War II.
Issue 3 includes an essay on "The Biology of Hierarchy."
Issue 4 has BAP promo material, a vile ad on p. 6 joking about how the Taliban's re-conquest of Afghanistan will deprive Afghan women of the chance to create pornography, and an ad for fascist publisher Imperium Press.
Issue 11 features ads for Antelope Hill, an ad for Stephen Wolfe and Thomas Achord's "Ars Politica" podcast, book reviews from Charles Haywood, and more creepy or racist ads.
Issue nine features pro-Rhodesian content, an ad for Antelope Hill, a short story about a man murdering his girlfriend on p. 285, and this extremely creepy ad.
There is also more porn in issue 9.
If people are curious about the contents of my talks this weekend, you can find my Friday evening manuscript at Mere O today titled "The False Promise of Disenchantment." A ms of the second talk from Saturday morning will go up tomorrow or Wednesday.
This past weekend, Covenant Seminary hosted the 2024 Francis Schaeffer Institute Conference. Speakers
@gavinortlund
and
@jake_meador
explored the timely topic of evangelism and apologetics in a disenchanted world, reminding us of the truth, goodness, and beauty of the gospel.
Second, I got the chance to write a foreword for this new book from Robin Phillips, a Salvo and Touchstone contributor, and Josh Pauling, who has written for me at Mere O in the past, about our current technological moment: