The Dangerous Secret Your Young Men Are Keeping: Neo-Nazi Thought Has Entered the Church

“I hope everyone is enjoying the podcast that no one is allowed to admit they listen to.”

When temptation arrives, it rarely announces itself. Instead, it speaks like a familiar friend. It preys on our vanity, arrogance, and curiosity—buttons it knows how to push only too well.

The tweet quoted above was my temptation, posted by an acquaintance early in 2024. As the host of a podcast, I was confident the tweet wasn’t referencing my show. Instead, it referred to a podcast whose name you might not know, though you’ve felt its impact: Stone Choir.

What unfolded over the following months would become one of the most humbling and sanctifying episodes of my life and career. Only by God’s mercy and grace does anyone care what I have to say today.

I have nothing to offer God that can express my gratitude to Him. Only a willingness to share the story in the prayer that it may help fathers and faith leaders rescue other young men from a soul-destroying web of online associations.

Before the Lord has to.

Father Famine: The Root of Vulnerability

For three generations and counting, Western men have experienced a crisis of fatherlessness. According to Wikipedia, the percentage of children living with single parents rose dramatically from 9% in the 1960s to 28% by 2012. A 2019 study from Pew Research revealed that 80% of those homes are led by a single mother.

The consequences of this are too vast to catalogue, though many books have been written about it. Douglas Wilson calls the phenomenon “father hunger,” but I respectfully disagree. Our nation suffers from father famine.

I was one such young man. My parents stayed married until I left home to attend Stanford University. But sadly their union was an unhappy one, in part because my mother was hooked on prescription pills, an addiction that would later claim her life.

I was also raised in a Reformed Jewish family. Reformed Jews are largely liberal, atheist, and ritualistic. So my family did all the Jewish things: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at Phoenix Symphony Hall, Passover Seders sung in Hebrew, and I was Bar-Mitzvah’d at age 13.

For all that, I learned precious little about God. We never read the Books of Moses, marveled at the stories of David, read (or sang!) the Psalms, or studied the messianic prophecies of Isaiah. We did Jewish things because, well, that’s what Jews do. Not because they pointed to ultimate reality.

I lacked a close relationship with my earthly father back then, too. Liberal households don’t have much use for male headship. My mother’s moods, misbehaviors, and frequent migraines ruled our home.

While my dad amply provided for my mother, my sister, and I, these factors nonetheless combined to leave me under-fathered. When my parents divorced after I went to college, and my dad subsequently remarried, I was effectively left on my own.

A Digital Substitute for Dads

My story isn’t unique. In fact, it’s comparatively mild. What happened next isn’t unique either: I turned to the Internet.

For the first time in history, men can find substitute fathering on handheld devices. In prior generations, under-fathered men would join street gangs, like my paternal grandfather Martin did. Even in his nineties, my beloved Poppa Marty would lament to me what a streetwise troublemaking teen he was in 1930’s Brooklyn.

For a Jewish kid of my generation growing up in Phoenix, a street gang wasn’t an option. But I could browse forums on social media, watch videos on YouTube, or participate in men’s chat groups.

Collectively, this online world is known as “the Manosphere,” a decentralized network for under-fathered boys to discuss what it means to be a man. If you know who Andrew Tate is, the Manosphere birthed him to public awareness in 2022. The Manosphere wasn’t a Christian space; moral virtue wasn’t part of the equation. Instead, the Nietzschean pursuit of power—physical, financial, and sexual—dominated most conversations.

No subjects were off-limits in our pursuit of material advantage, but two were most popular. The first is called “the Red Pill.”

The Red Pill’s False Promise

In case you’ve been living in a cave since 1999, the term references the film “The Matrix.” In it, the main character Neo (Keanu Reeves) takes a crimson capsule that shows him truths that alter his understanding of reality. These truths wake him from his blinded stupor and open his eyes to grim reality of “the matrix.”

In the Manosphere’s “red pill,” the truths men learn concern the nature of women’s sexual desire. The central lesson is that harmless “nice guys” are destined for heartbreak, because deep-down their girlfriends and wives prefer sexy, reckless “bad boys.”

That might not be a shocking allegation, but the “red pill” takes things a step further. It teaches that men only embody the nice guy archetype because they’ve been manipulated by their feminist mothers and culture. Men who never question their programming end up as “blue-pill betas,” effeminate suckers deprived of their masculine birthright. They’re guys that women settle for and marry but never desire. These are supposedly the predominant type of man today.

By contrast, men who enter the Manosphere “take the red pill,” which awakens them to these hidden truths. Imbued with secret knowledge, men of the Manosphere then train to grow in physical, financial, and sexual power. The promise is that by shedding “beta” programming and becoming “alphas,” the men will transform into objects of women’s sexual desire. This will activate dormant feminine submission, empowering men to triumph over the feminist spirit of the age.

The Manosphere and Red Pill prey on men’s insecurities, teaching them that their diminished state in life is the fault of deceitful women. For men raised in homes with single mothers who no-fault divorced their fathers—often taking half his assets and future earnings with her—it’s a potent message.

A Breeding Ground for Extremism

The second popular topic in the Manosphere answers, “How did we get here as a society?” with “here” being our women-dominated dystopia of crumbling family, church, and state. This is often referred to online as “trashworld” or “the longhouse.”

The first neologism, promoted by many Christians, is a critical term that describes our consumer-driven society of waste, propaganda, and corruption. The second, which has achieved common currency among conservatives, refers to a type of primitive residence. “Longhouses” were communal, multi-family dwellings for matrilineal tribes. An individual, organization, or society that’s “in the longhouse” bows to feminine social norms over patriarchal patterns.

For an answer about how the West “got longhoused” and decayed into trashworld, the Manosphere appeals to its subterranean Internet neighbor, 4chan. Think of 4chan like a stripped-down version of X. Anonymous accounts post images and blocks of text that cascade at high speed. The site is largely unmoderated, so anything goes, including extreme adult content and depictions of real-world gore and violence.

4chan has a magnetic attraction for young men, many of whom lack discernment and are resentful of authority. They’re alienated, rebellious, combative. The end product is akin to thousands of Holden Caulfields leading an online version of the novel The Lord of the Flies.^[1] (4chan users would consider this a good thing.)

1. Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of JD Salinger’s classic novel The Catcher In the Rye. The character has become an enduring literary symbol of teenage defiance and existential angst. The Lord of the Flies is the 1954 classic novel by William Golding. It tells the story of a group of British schoolboys stranded on an uninhabited tropical island after a plane crash. The boys’ attempt to self-govern goes disastrously wrong, culminating in violence, chaos, and savagery.

What results from this digital stew is an ideological gladiator’s arena that produces championship-caliber memes.

For example, perhaps you’ve been sent a blind web link by a friend. You click it, only to be surprised by the 80’s music video for the pop song “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.

That harmless gag is called “Rickrolling,” and it was invented on 4chan in 2006. The meme became so popular so quickly, Astley’s career was resurrected. Within a year he was performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, being announced by Sesame Street characters. The music video has since amassed more than 1.6 billion views on YouTube.

If you’ve also seen abundant cartoon images of smirking, smiling, and smug green frogs, that amphibian’s name is Pepe. He’s another child of 4chan with a long story of his own. He became their unofficial mascot during the 2016 election.

4chan catalyzed Trump’s support from young men in 2016, but not because of his policy proposals. They did it for “the lulz”—a trollish derivative of LOL, or “laugh out loud.’ They thought electing him would be a fine joke to pull on the establishment. If you ever want to travel down a spooky rabbit hole, research how 4chan users are convinced—with some evidence—that Pepe’s “meme magic” might have helped usher Trump 45 into the White House.

4chan thus might be the most powerful online phenomenon that most have never heard of. It’s attracted successive generations of young men with its taboo-shattering, chronically-online approach to culture.

According to 4chan, the villains that led the West “here” in the grand narrative of history are familiar culprits and scapegoats: The Jews.

The Grand Deception

It’s no great revelation to say that Reformed Jewish families like mine are ultra-liberal. But what many don’t know is that “the post-war consensus” (PWC)—the collection of progressive values imposed by elites in the wake of World War 2—is the Jewish equivalent of a homeschool curriculum.

I saw firsthand how following the so-called “PWC” devastated my family as a microcosm of the wider culture. So as an under-fathered man seeking answers for myself, I too found the Manosphere, the Red Pill, and 4chan.

Here’s how I’d summarize what they had to say about how we got here. Please note, this is their narrative, not mine. Make sure you’re sitting down:

The Jews who killed Christ didn’t accept defeat at His resurrection. They spent centuries plotting to overthrow His reign and establish a global seat of power in Jerusalem. This scheme surfaced in a pseudo-historical nineteenth century document called “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”

Adolf Hitler read the Protocols and became the sole Christian world leader brave enough to challenge the Jews, which he determined to do for the good of his superior Aryan race. Jewish capitalist forces in the West, led by Roosevelt and Churchill, and Jewish Bolshevik forces in the East, led by Stalin, then conspired to destroy Hitler and the defiant National Socialists of Germany.

In 1945, the Allies were victorious. Shortly after, the Holocaust was fabricated. This ersatz atrocity served as the keystone for the “Never again!” ethos of the post-war consensus. Horrific tales of mass murder in the death camps stabbed like a knife into the heart of the West. Movies and TV shows slandered “masculine Christian patriarchy” as the foundations of fascism and genocide.

In the moral vacuum left behind after patriarchy’s demise, Jewish liberal-progressive values ascended without resistance. The Jews chose feminism as the chief instrument to mobilize those values. Playing on the feminine sympathy for “the disadvantaged,” a weaponized-empathy campaign began in the 1960’s to enlist marginalized populations in the democratic process:

• Deviant homosexuals
• Promiscuous single women
• Unassimilated immigrants
• Violent inner-city minorities

Led in secret by the Jews, these groups are now foot soldiers in a war of cultural genocide against straight white Christian men and families. According to the plan laid out in the “Protocols,” the Jews use these groups to suppress white birth rates via abortion and birth control, flood cities with minorities, mass-produce pornography, normalize the homosexual lifestyle, and more. All these have led to the moral and civilizational decline of the West, paving the way for a global socialist new world order.

The Jews aren’t stupid. They know they can’t kill Christ. Instead they’re using cultural, political, and economic institutions—including the usurious Federal Reserve—to decimate the population of their enemy: white Western Christians. This will effectively accomplish the same goal.

The Jews’ victory will usher in the final Talmudic end-times triumph over Christ’s name on Earth. In their dark eschaton, Jews will rule with an iron fist of Noahide Law over a globalized world of half-wit mulattos.

At last, the Jews would have their revenge against God!

… But not if the awakening spirit of white Christian men can stop them first. What proud Adolf Hitler and the slandered National Socialists did must be attempted again. A Nazi revival might be the only way to save the West, and therefore the world.

Or so the argument goes.

Wolves in Shepherds’ Clothing

If this sounds like a staggeringly anti-Semitic and revisionist fever dream that you can’t imagine anyone would believe, it is indeed that. But it also means you’ve underestimated three critical factors:

First, the magnitude of the bitterness towards devouring feminist mothers and abdicating Boomer fathers that’s lived in the hearts of young men for decades. Second, how far the “Everything we’ve been told is a lie” idea has traveled after the scandal of COVID. Third, how sophisticated historical revisionism has grown in the bottomless pit of the Internet.

As a high-speed internet user since 1996, I can testify to the reality of the above. As serious a problem as Internet pornography is today—and it is a problem—the viral ideologies that spread amongst extremely-online men pose a far more pernicious threat. Especially now that these ideas have surfaced in veiled form on censorship-free platforms like X and especially Gab, where they thrive in the open.

But don’t take my word for it. This cartoon depicts the narrative I just described.

Note the rogue’s gallery of degenerate interest groups: screeching feminists, inner city and MS13 gang members, homosexuals, and pedophiles. Note the massive Jewish spider towering like a puppet-master behind them, complete with bulbous nose, lustful eyes, and Star of David crown. Whether the artist was aware or not, the drawing echoes Nazi-era German propaganda that used spider symbolism to portray Jews as the source of all evil.

Extremist Christian-professing groups have adapted this cartoon to present themselves and potential “traditionalist” allies as sentinels against the darkness. In one version, a Christian Crusade knight is standing next to a Norse barbarian.

In another version, the Crusader is standing with a Muslim Saracen.

Finally, in case you missed it, the Neo Nazi “black sun” symbol is hiding in the sunlight, in the upper right-hand corner of the image with the barbarian and the Crusader. Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer of the murderous Nazi SS and an infamous occultist, had this mysterious symbol depicted in marble on the floor of his Westphalian castle, Wewelsburg.

If you want to know what’s gotten into young men—including many Christians and even pastors—this is it. It’s a form of gnostic “secret knowledge” that such groups operate with. It can be likened to what left-wing academia calls “critical consciousness” in that they believe the worldview allows its adherents to see reality “as it truly is.” If you don’t know or agree with their narrative, you’ve got “Boomer brain.” Therefore, you fall on the wrong side of the “friend/enemy distinction.”

In other words, “If you’re not one of us, you’re one of them.”

The narrative is disseminated virally in both written and video content. First, anyone can read the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” for themselves. The FBI released the uncensored document on their website as part of a 2020 FOIA request. It’s now available to the world on the first page of Google’s search results.

The infamous 1978 novel The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce (writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald) transposes the narrative into fiction. In the plot of Pierce’s book, an American white nationalist movement known as “The Organization” wages an apocalyptic race war against the “System”—a network of corrupt institutions run by Jews.

During the trial of convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh, witnesses testified to McVeigh’s “obsession” with the book, which he gave away to friends. The bombing itself was modeled on a plot point of The Turner Diaries wherein Organization members destroy FBI headquarters using a truck bomb loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer.

Likewise, William Pierce (1933–2002) has been called “the godfather of hate” in America. The organization he founded, National Alliance, was labeled “the single most dangerous organized hate group in the United States today.” And the FBI described The Turner Diaries as “the bible of the racist right.”

Second, two long-form video documentaries explain how the Protocols’ plan has progressed in the twentieth century. “The Greatest Story Never Told” describes World War 2 from the Nazi point of view. It paints Adolf Hitler as the maligned suffering servant of the twentieth century. The 12-hour “Europa: The Last Battle” then investigates the Zionist cultural genocide of whites that commenced in the post-war era.

“Battle Europa” is such a deleterious and corrosive force in dissident circles that the popular right-wing influencer Keith Woods wrote a multi-part Substack series debunking its claims one-by-one. He wanted to separate himself, his followers, and his movement from the pseudo-history dragging young men off an ideological cliff.

But no one would promote these ideas in Christian circles, would they? And surely no one would believe it if they were?

Enter Stone Choir.

When Temptation Found Me

Stone Choir is a weekly podcast hosted by two men: Corey Mahler and Ryan Dumperth, who goes by the pseudonym “Woe.” Both have been excommunicated from the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. And Stone Choir is the crystallization of Manosphere, Red Pill, and 4chan thinking calibrated for the blind spots of Reformed culture.

I first connected with Ryan Dumperth via Twitter Direct Messages in late 2023. He and I had much in common. We’re both in our mid-forties and were educated at elite universities: I at Stanford, and he at the University of Chicago. We both had lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and we both had worked in tech. I even had friends who worked at the same company that Ryan did. In a prior era of our lives, he and I were likely one degree of separation from each other.

I later learned that Ryan was the co-host of the podcast that “no one was allowed to admit that they listened to.” That had me curious. I was aware that Stone Choir spoke about possible connections between race and IQ. My travels to more than thirty countries around the world left me with strong impressions on that front. And as a content creator who started in the Manosphere, I had been on the front lines against feminism, too.

I also knew Stone Choir challenged Jewish influence and covered related topics like Holocaust-denialism, which they advocate for. That’s where I started to go wrong. Because I saw the Reformed world struggling to address an elephant in the room: Jewish influence on Western culture. I thought that given my Jewish upbringing, I could take the lead in handling radioactive topics that others couldn’t.

I had also been around the Manosphere, the Red Pill, 4chan, and their anti-Semitic narrative for so long that I had become totally desensitized to it. I didn’t agree with it—especially not the Nazis being good guys. But so many men joke about “the Jews” as part of the Internet’s lingua franca, it no longer appeared on my moral radar.

Blinded by my curiosity, vanity, and arrogance, I asked Ryan to recommend some of their episodes to me, intending to interview them for my show. He provided a hand-curated playlist.

Like many do, I found Stone Choir’s podcast to be well-produced and bold in their coverage of topics like feminism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and leftist infiltration of institutions, including the Lutheran Church. For whatever else they were, Corey Mahler and Ryan Dumperth seemed to be articulate men who produced a show with little fat on the bones.

One area I disagreed with them on was their claim that Hitler was a regenerate Christian believer, what they call “the last Christian prince.” I knew that wasn’t true because in February 2024, I’d read Dr. Mark Musser’s book Nazi Ecology: The Oak Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust. Dr. Musser explains how the philosophical and theological streams that fed Nazism were explicitly anti-Biblical.

My plan was to interview Stone Choir and then Dr. Musser to facilitate a discussion about the topic of Hitler’s faith, a subject I considered of central importance. If Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists weren’t Christian, then they can’t be examples for Christian men to follow. I booked an interview date with Stone Choir after Dr. Musser confirmed his.

Things did not go according to plan.

Divine Discipline

Prior to our interview, Ryan and I developed an online friendship via the messaging app Telegram. He later shared screenshots of our exchanges as an act of retribution. In them, the nakedness of my sinful attitudes was laid bare.

I, too, once joked and shared memes about Hitler and the Nazis. I also have opinions about the Jewish people. Indeed, I’m no longer invited to family gatherings since I became a Christian.

I also had my own revisionist understanding of the Holocaust. I speculated that its looming cultural influence was derived from it being a mass human sacrifice. I drew this explanation from the years I spent as a student in an occult mystery school, long before I became a Christian. That’s why Dr. Musser’s book subtitled “The Oak Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust” (emphasis mine) was intriguing to me. I saw that I wasn’t the only one thinking along such unorthodox lines.

The key point is that I wasn’t blinded by Stone Choir. I was already blind. The episode was God’s judgment on me for attitudes that I carried out of the darkness of my pre-Christian life. They were attitudes He knew I had to be sanctified of, if I were going to serve Him in the light.

In other words, I deserved it.

I interviewed Stone Choir for six hours in June 2024, on the evening of the Trump/Biden debate. We had a cordial conversation about all their hot-button topics. I didn’t detect anything in the interview that I thought was pathologically radical.

But I had missed something. Central to Stone Choir’s most popular argument about race and salvation is the claim that Christianity requires a grasp of complex concepts. In Stone Choir’s account of the faith, believers must understand and assent to many advanced doctrines. This poses a problem in their mind for some ethnicities.

If (a) some races have higher IQ’s than others, and if (b) IQ is an inherited genetic trait, and if (c) Christianity requires a high IQ, then (d) some races must be better suited for Christianity at a genetic level than others.

This might sound plausible if you come from the heady world of Reformed theology. We debate soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology over cigars. That’s what Christianity is, right?

Wrong. Children can understand Jesus’s self-sacrificial love without resolving the paradox of free will and God’s sovereignty. A faithful Christian can be illiterate or simple-minded. God even chooses what is foolish in the world to shame the wise (1 Cor. 1:27).

The notion that a high IQ is a prerequisite for saving faith plays on the pride of Reformed men who think that their hyper-intellectual mode of being Christian is the one true way of being so.

Stone Choir’s innovation is to link their ideas of race, IQ, and salvation to the anti-Semitic 4chan narrative. Their claim is that high-IQ white Reformed Christian men have a special role to play in the battle against “the Jews” and their degenerate hordes.

Stone Choir’s other content is a delivery mechanism to till the soil of young men’s minds and hearts to receive the poisoned seed of ethnic animus. This is an old Neo Nazi tactic. Stone Choir is just the latest duo to employ it.

The Moment of Truth

My interview with Stone Choir came out two weeks after we recorded it. A pall fell over my home that morning. I knew the episode was risky, but something was very wrong.

The night before, a pastor acquaintance of mine—a man named Joel Ellis—saw the upcoming premiere of the YouTube video of the interview. He was more familiar with Stone Choir than I was. He stayed up late into the night and woke up early, praying what to do.

The Lord called him to intervene in my life, even though he didn’t have to.

This pastor—a shepherd of a small local church I wasn’t a member of—went to Corey Mahler’s public Telegram. There, Ellis took dozens of screenshots of posts that were available to all.

In building a friendship with Ryan Dumperth, I had failed to research his co-host Corey Mahler. If you recognize that name, you’ll know what a catastrophic oversight that was. The pastor emailed me the screenshots with a full-page rebuke that was the sternest I hope to ever receive from any man. It is withering to read even today:

You have not only platformed wickedness, you have brought shame on many of us who work hard every day to clarify, contextualize, and communicate biblical concepts of sexuality, gender roles, family, social order, and justice and who are constantly faced with attacks that secretly we are all like Corey Mahler and believe the same things.

As I viewed the screenshots, I saw in a flash what he meant:

Persecuting fellow Christians for their eschatology, denying the citizenship of American blacks, and a genocidal end-times campaign of vengeance?

And what about that grand anti-Semitic narrative? I saw that men who call themselves Christians actually believe it! It’s not just a story that bros kick around in group chats for “the lulz.” To them, it describes realities that they are preparing to act in response to, whether or not they’re brave enough to link their private beliefs to their public reputations.

I pulled the podcast down immediately after speaking to Pastor Ellis on the phone and posted a tweet repenting for my association with views I found abhorrent. I stated truthfully that had I known what Stone Choir really believed, I never would have interviewed them in the first place.

Nonetheless, the poor discernment was mine. The folly was mine. The buck for my life and my work stops with me.

X exploded in outrage. My repentance tweet amassed 250,000 views. Castigation and bile spewed from the abundance of men’s dark hearts. I saw up close the vicious truth of what I’d been involved in.

I limped away shaken, ashamed, broken in spirit. But I was clear in conscience that I’d done the right thing in the sight of God. His was the only opinion I cared about.

I’ve been a target of Dumperth, Mahler, and the anonymous multitudes and allies of the Stone Choir cult ever since. Their accusation is that someone “pulled my strings.”

Of course, they’re right. Just not about Who did the pulling.

The Growing Threat

These events culminated in July 2024, just days before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Stone Choir’s profile and the anti-Semitic Neo Nazi narrative they espouse have only grown in prominence in the since then.

Influencers like Candace Owens, Andrew Tate, and Nick Fuentes have hinted at these beliefs on X. Rapper Kanye West is singing “Heil Hitler!” in his latest single, after being cancelled for ranting about “the Jews” in 2022. Joe Rogan interviewed Darryl Cooper, aka “Martyr Made,” the host of a history podcast who has attempted to normalize the narrative through scholarly revisionism about Winston Churchill. Worst of all, Reformed pastors have released videos talking about “Talmudic Judaism,” “heritage Americans,” and “low-IQ minorities,” all of which are dog-whistles playing Stone Choir’s Neo Nazi tune to young men who can hear it.

These individuals know what they’re doing, in other words. That becomes obvious, once you see it for what it is.

The time has also allowed me to do a great deal of soul-searching. In the words of C.S. Lewis in the preface to The Great Divorce:

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

Following Lewis, I’ve worked backwards to find my error. It begins here:

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. (Prov. 22:15)

Father famine has led to a generation of foolish and undisciplined men. I’m no exception. The rapid expansion of the Internet exacerbated the problem. Our society was not prepared for an always-on, ever-present information source that could build toxic silos around foolish men, disaffected or otherwise.

The fatherly failure to discipline men has thus extended to how men use the Internet. We must ask, how can young men exercise godly discernment about who they’re associating with, especially when men of violence may be hiding their identities and intentions?

I don’t believe that the answer lies in coddling. Rather, the solution lies in swift and stern rebuke.

First, men of the Manosphere are fond of aphorisms such as, “No one cares, work harder,” and “Men do hard things.” But those boasts are abandoned instantly when it comes to the moral courage to take responsibility for their lives and, if necessary, dissent from wayward tribes of “bros.”

Men do hard things, just not the hardest things on earth, apparently. Because when you try to dissuade young men of their ill-considered beliefs and teach them personal accountability, it becomes, “OK, Boomer. You don’t understand how much young white men have suffered!”

Actually, no. Because real suffering involves waging a righteous campaign to overcome adverse circumstances while preserving one’s moral character. That’s the story of every great hero from Frodo Baggins to William Wallace to the ultimate example, Jesus Christ.

Rebuke is also what worked for me. A righteous smack to the face woke me up. I am forever indebted to the Lord and to Pastor Ellis for delivering it with fatherly love, when they could have abandoned me to my own devices. Faithful are the wounds of a friend (Prov. 27:6).

Reclaiming Young Men’s Hearts

Faith leaders must now gird their loins to perform this service for other men. They can do this by appealing to standards to which all men are accountable: reason and faith.

First, the tool of reason. Mountains of historical evidence about Hitler and the Nazis—including their pagan religious beliefs—have been recorded in libraries’ worth of books. These works are informed by scholarship derived from primary source documents. I’ve compiled an extensive list of the most popular and credible books on this issue on Substack. The list includes a book that exposes the origins of “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.”

Second, the tool of faith. The Word of God explicitly commands young men how to think, speak, and act. The entire book of Proverbs is King Solomon educating his son in wise and righteous conduct. In Psalm 51, King David repents from adultery and murder, pointing the finger at no one but himself. Paul tells us to “rejoice in all circumstances,” (1 Thess. 5:16–17) as he’s shuttled from dungeon to dungeon on trumped-up charges. Joseph’s story shows us that what his brothers intended for evil, God intended for good (Gen 50:20). Finally, Christ went willingly to the cross, refusing to call down twelve legions of angels on the night of His betrayal (Matt. 26:53) and did not return reviling for reviling (1 Pet. 2:23).

Indeed, the context of 1 Peter 2:20–23 warrants careful study for young men today:

For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: ‘Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth’; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. (NKJV)

A Test of Discernment

Similarly, there are two pitfalls that leaders must avoid. First, they must not assert themselves as the infallible supreme authority. This is the error of the Baby Boomers: “You can’t talk about that because it’s naughty and I don’t like it!” This approach activates young men’s curiosity for the forbidden and their instinct for rebellion. It has failed disastrously.

Second, do not trust your knowledge of World War 2 history derived from Hollywood and the History Channel. That story is a sensationalized distortion of far more gruesome and fallen human truths. In a rush for profit on historical horror, Hollywood set up a “Nazi supervillain” straw man that gigabytes’ worth of 4chan memes knock down with ease.

Finally, if you as a pastor are considering admitting a man to membership in your church, or if you have a parishioner, podcaster, or even fellow pastor that you’re wondering about, ask him one question: “Do you believe the Jews are committing cultural genocide against straight white men and families?”

There are three possible answers:

The first is, “Excuse me, what?” I consider this to be the ideal case.

The second is, “No.” Which would mean the man has perhaps encountered this worldview and rejected it.

The third can only be hesitation, which indicates he is entertaining or holding beliefs he’s not willing to acknowledge. Those beliefs can then be drawn out of him, through speaking the truth in love using tools of reason and faith.

If a man applying for membership in a church cannot or will not examine these views and repent, I strongly advise slowing down the membership process. The views spread virally. If the man is admitted, he will almost certainly sow them in others.

The danger is not that the views are wholly false. Rather, like all convincing lies, it’s that they draw incorrect conclusions from partially accurate observations.

Feminism, the mass production of pornography, and the normalization of the homosexual lifestyle have indeed led to the moral and civilizational decline of the West. Men and women who identify as ethnically Jewish—such as financier George Soros, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, feminist Gloria Steinem, LGBTQ activist Harvey Milk, and infamous porn producer Al Goldstein—have led those efforts.^[2]

But claims that “the Jews” as a whole are executing a multi-generational conspiracy to subvert white Christian men paints with far too broad a brush. My own family may be liberal, but no more so than the average San Francisco tech-industry yuppie (or mainline Protestant, for that matter.)

Additionally, countless Jewish men and women have made enduring contributions to Western institutions, often earning Nobel prizes for their work. Key names include legendary classical musicians Leonard Bernstein and Yitzhak Perlman; physicists Neils Bohr, Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman; economists Ludwig Von Mises and Milton Friedman; authors Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago), Joseph Heller (Catch-22), and Isaac Asimov (Foundation); filmmakers Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men), Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) and the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski); pioneering neurosurgeons Ludwig Guttman and Ernest Sachs; and even the acclaimed Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City.

If “the Jews” were truly trying to subvert the West, why did so many of them give so much to it? If they wanted the West to fall, wouldn’t it have been more efficient to just walk away?

Furthermore, the grand anti-Semitic narrative hinges on the historically falsifiable claim that the Holocaust was fabricated. The systematic extermination of millions of European Jews and other ethnicities is a fact documented not just by Jews such as Primo Levi (Survival in Auschwitz) and Viktor Frankl (Man’s Search for Meaning), but Christians including Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place) and Catholic priest Fr. Johannes Lenz (Christ in Dachau). Dr. Richard Weikart, author of the books From Darwin to Hitler and Hitler’s Religion, has similarly done extensive work documenting the Führer’s own anti-Christ beliefs, as has the popular anonymous X account Hitler Hated Christ.

The fact that history has been simplified and sensationalized for a dumbed-down, public school-educated population does not mean history as we know it is a lie. Perhaps it means instead that we all need to do less streaming and more reading.

A biblical perspective would emphasize that the supernatural forces of evil that despise God, His law, and His people extend back to the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1) and before (Ezek. 28:11–19). The Apostle Paul—a former Pharisee of Pharisees (Acts 23:6)—likewise describes spirits that drive false teachings in a coordinated way (Acts 19:15, Gal. 4:3 and 9, Col. 2:8 and 20, Eph. 2:2). Paul even wrote that Satan blinds the minds of unbelievers—which would include unbelievers across all cultures and locations—from Christ’s glory (2 Cor. 4:4).

Nowhere does Paul say that Jews alone are responsible for propagating wickedness. The churches in Galatia, Colossae, and Corinth were Gentile churches. Does it not stand to reason that Gentiles today might be targets of these same demonic forces?

How about young, white Gentile men?

From Death to Life

Every young man believes he’s invincible and immortal. Eventually, we learn that we are frail, flawed, and fallible. And that our sin, when it matures, leads to death (James 1:14–15).

I know this all firsthand. I’m neither invincible nor immortal, and the temptations I face can lead to errors that will follow me for a lifetime.

Yes, I see the fruits of forgiveness by God and by all those my folly impacted. I’m now a member in good standing of Pastor Ellis’ church, I’m engaged to be married, my relationship with my dad has continued to thrive, my audience has grown, and great men (like Pastor Doug Wilson) came to my defense in the public square. The Lord be praised for his mercy and everlasting loving-kindness to sinners! Hallelujah!

But I’ve tasted death, and I can’t forget it. Amidst the joy in my redemption, I grieve.

These are the stakes that pastors face with the men of their congregations. God intervened in my life before it was too late. Other men are waiting for a similar blessing. Meanwhile, these men are risking their families, careers, and reputations because they’ve absorbed “secret knowledge” that’s tickling their ears. This includes Ryan Dumperth of Stone Choir, for whom I’ve prayed often.

Thankfully, pastors aren’t alone in this fight. Influencers are battling it on X and YouTube. Even President Donald Trump’s administration is grappling with right-wing factions that are vocal in their hatred for Israel. They appear determined to crack MAGA from within, using “the Jews” as a wedge.

This is the information war being waged in America and the church. Left-wing extremism lost in the 2024 election, at least for now. Right-wing extremism in the anti-Semitic Neo Nazi narrative has taken its place. Its voices are smooth, its historical views are sophisticated, and its future vision is seductive—with promises of masculine power, vindication, and triumph.

As I learned, curiosity about it attracts before vanity blinds, and then finally, arrogance grasps.

So it falls to pastors and faith leaders to act as the fathers men never had. Armed with stern rebukes, may their loving words lead to repentance.

And may the Holy Spirit move in our nation and the church to pry young men’s fingers from the sword.