Dr. Steve Caudle, the pastor of Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga, is using his pulpit to raise up an insurrectionist army.
“No one likes violence, but sometimes violence is necessary,” the pastor said. “When Elon Musk forces his way into the U.S. Treasury and threatens to steal your personal information and your Social Security check, there is a possibility of violence. Sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight.”
Caudle also serves on the area’s regional planning commission.
Dr. Caudle is not the only pastor to use his pulpit to bully President Trump or his policies. A number of pastors have been intentionally misrepresenting the president’s comments on mass deportation.
That’s because many of these denominations get hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to care for the illegals. And many of the so-called evangelical Never Trump leaders were actually getting checks from the Biden Administration to be Never Trump.
Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp immediately condemned the pastor’s call to violence.
“Totally unacceptable for Rev. Caudle to use the pulpit to justify violence against the Trump Administration and @elonmusk. Hateful rhetoric has no place in Hamilton County, especially from a pastor. I have asked for his immediate resignation from the Regional Planning Commission,” Wamp wrote on X.
The pastor told Fox Chattanooga that he stands by every word he uttered.
I never called for violence against Elon Musk, and he knows that it’s propaganda. They take things, they twist it, they only play portions of a particular sermon in order to push their propaganda,” he said.
The sort of rhetoric being spewed from the pulpit of Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church is dangerous. There have already been two attempts on President Trump’s life.
Seems to me that any church calling for violent insurrection should at the very least have to surrender their tax-exempt status. And the FBI should be paying a visit to the church parsonage.
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