Has anyone heard of this "Reverend" Steve Wilkins character?

They were just talking about him on Al's show, so I had to do a quick search to see what I could find out.

Now this guy is a real lunatic.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has this to say about what this loon teaches:

And just what is the world according to Wilkins?

All of history is a struggle between "biblical faith" and "non-biblical faith." White colonists made early America a godly nation, agreeing that "all areas of life must be ruled by His law," that democracy was to be "despised and condemned," and that theocracy was "the only proper role of government."


"The Salem witch trials really weren't so bad. "Only" 23 people died as a result. Anyhow, "there was a large amount of occultic experimentation at the time." There were also "a number of seemingly inexplicable events" to explain. Yes, there were mistakes, but the Puritan clergy was dead set against these excesses.

The French Revolution was bad, the creature of "subversive groups" aiming to sow "chaos and anarchy." The American Revolution was good — it never, ever, appealed to "the rights of man" despite propaganda to the contrary from mainstream historians who cite Thomas Paine and his pamphlet Common Sense."

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The "War Between the States" really had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery.

And slaves, by the way, had it pretty grand — even if "black historians" today insist on ignoring "unequivocal testimonies to the general benevolence of Southern slavery." Slaves actually "lived relatively easygoing lives."

A normal day's tasks took a slave three to four hours, so slaves would often do two or three days' work in one day. Then, Wilkins suggests, the slaves would "take several days off" and travel by horse or boat "to visit friends, family, or lovers on other plantations."

The anti-slavery movement "had more support in the South than in the North." Two thirds of anti-slavery societies were in the South. But abolitionists used "slanderous propaganda" and "political terrorism" to paint a different picture.

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=254

Holy crap this guy is insane.