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It is tragic—and revealing—that churches are glorifying the hatred and shaming culture promoted by Charlie Kirk. Take John Graham, a Deaf pastor in Milton, Canada, who openly worships Charlie Kirk as though he were a prophet.

Charlie Kirk claimed that anyone who learns at college is a fraud, a scam. Yet John Graham himself studied at a Bible College. By Kirk’s own logic, that too would be a scam. The hypocrisy is staggering.

Society is built on different types of norms: social norms, legal norms, cultural norms, and religious norms. But there are also moral norms—the kind that require us to respect Black, Brown, Indigenous, Deaf, LGBTQIA+ people and all marginalized communities. When John Graham and his wife Suzan glorify the hatred and public shaming spread by Charlie Kirk, they betray those moral norms. They become bystanders—complicit in cruelty and inhumanity.

I joined John Graham’s church last year as a one-time social experiment. What I found confirmed my worst fears: a congregation filled with Trump loyalists, dominated by a white majority, brimming with arrogance, and preaching hate. One Deaf church member even used dangerous rhetoric to target immigrants with hatred. This is not faith—it is fanaticism.

William Faulkner once wrote in 1958: “A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.” What does this mean for us today? It means conscience is supposed to keep us human, to keep us accountable. But in Graham’s church, conscience has been replaced by blind loyalty to whitewashed authoritarianism.

Shame has become the currency of control. Churches like Graham’s thrive because shaming is cheaper than physical punishment, and guilt is cheaper still. Shame scales quickly, forcing conformity while erasing individuality. But when norms disappear, so does the shame that enforces them. And that is the danger—because what remains is empty hatred, unchecked and unchallenged.

I have studied the power dynamics of hate for nearly 20 years. I have read the books, taken courses on hate crimes, studied the sociology of religion, attended conferences, and listened to survivors.

Again and again, the evidence is clear: the far-right—those who worship Trump, Kirk, and their imitators—are among the most dangerous groups in existence. They target vulnerable communities. They normalize hatred. They glorify cruelty.

John Graham does not care about the pain these vulnerable communities have endured. He benefits from the privileges of whiteness and religious authority while ignoring the suffering of others. And so we must ask: Was Jesus actually a white man? Or has the figure of Jesus been weaponized to preserve white supremacy under the guise of faith?

This is not Christianity. This is not community. This is hypocrisy wrapped in scripture and preached as salvation.

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